Pyknolepsy

Translation of "pyknolepsy" into Russian

Noun

pyknolepsy

pyknolepsies pl

Pyknolepsy is characterized by frequent, brief absence seizures.

Пикнолепсия характеризуется частыми, кратковременными абсансами.

Noun

A condition characterized by frequent, brief, and sudden episodes of loss of consciousness or seizures.

The patient was diagnosed with pyknolepsy after experiencing multiple episodes of brief unconsciousness throughout the day.

A type of epilepsy marked by numerous brief absence seizures each day, occurring most often in children; childhood absence epilepsy.

Child neurologists may refer to childhood absence epilepsy as pyknolepsy.