absence seizure

Noun absence seizure has 1 sense

• absence seizure(n = noun.state) absence - the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy;
is a kind of ictus, raptus, seizure
is a part of epilepsia minor, petit mal, petit mal epilepsy
has particulars: complex absence, pure absence, simple absence, subclinical absence