absence seizure

Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education.
The Radio Battle to Educate Ebola’s Kids|Abby Haglage|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
And the absence of paper and so forth, rendering notebooks costly and rare, made a large amount of memorizing necessary.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
During his absence his own relations and the chief families in his town became the objects of persecution.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
And the countess-dowager fanned herself complacently, and neither she nor Maude cared for the absence of a groomsman.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
Mamma has proposed to her—in view of your absence—to come and stay with us, and she does n't seem afraid of the idea.
Confidence|Henry James

Medical definitions for absence seizure

absence seizure

A brief, sudden loss of consciousness symptomatic of petit mal epilepsy.