petit mal epilepsy is a noun meaning "epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities)". It carries one recorded sense.
epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities)
“she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for petit mal epilepsy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.