psychomotor epilepsy

noun

temporal-lobe epilepsy.

Origin of psychomotor epilepsy

First recorded in 1935–40

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psychomotor epilepsy in Medicine

psychomotor epilepsy

n.

An epileptic seizure often associated with temporal lobe disease and characterized by complex sensory, motor, and psychic symptoms such as impaired consciousness with amnesia, emotional outbursts, automatic behavior, and abnormal acts.psychomotor seizure temporal lobe epilepsy

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