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reflex epilepsy

Health care; Diseases

A subtype of epilepsy characterized by seizures that are consistently provoked by a certain specific stimulus. Auditory, visual, and somatosensory stimuli as well as the acts of writing, reading, ...

T-Cell leukemia

Health care; Diseases

A subtype of lymphocytic leukemia classified as acute or chronic depending on the degree of cell differentiation, not the duration of the disease.

migraine

Health care; Diseases

A subtype of vascular headaches characterized by periodic unilateral pulsatile headaches which begin in childhood, adolescence, or early adult life and recur with diminishing frequency during ...

status asthmaticus

Health care; Diseases

A sudden intense and continuous aggravation of a state of asthma, marked by dyspnea to the point of exhaustion and collapse and not responding to the usual therapeutic efforts.

A sudden, audible expulsion of air from the lungs through a partially closed glottis, preceded by inhalation. It is a protective response that serves to clear the trachea, bronchi, and/or lungs of ...

cerebrovascular accident

Health care; Diseases

A sudden, nonconvulsive loss of neurologic function due to an ischemic or hemorrhagic intracranial vascular event. In general, cerebrovascular accidents are classified by anatomic location in the ...