kojewnikoff epilepsy
1Epilepsy — (seizure disorder): When nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses at a rate of up to four times higher than normal, this causes a sort of electrical storm in the brain, known as a seizure. A pattern of repeated seizures is referred to as …
2Kojewnikoff, Kozhevnikov — Aleksei Y., Russian neurologist, 1836–1902. See K. epilepsy …
3epilepsia — SYN: epilepsy. [G.] e. partialis continua 1. a form of epilepsy marked by repetitive clonic muscular contractions with or without major convulsions; 2. simple partial motor status epilepticus of the rolandic cortex …
