lafora's disease

1. 1.

   epilepsy characterized by clonus of muscle groups and progressive mental deterioration and genetic origin

   Synonymsmyoclonus epilepsy

   Broaderepilepsy

Questions about lafora's disease

What does lafora's disease mean?

lafora's disease means "epilepsy characterized by clonus of muscle groups and progressive mental deterioration and genetic origin".

What is another word for lafora's disease?

Close synonyms include myoclonus 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 lafora's disease a common word?

lafora's disease 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.