focal epilepsy

What does focal epilepsy mean?

focal epilepsy means "epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)".

What is another word for focal epilepsy?

Close synonyms include cortical epilepsy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is focal epilepsy a common word?

focal epilepsy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for focal epilepsy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.