| benign neonatal convulsions | A familial, self-limited epilepsy, beginning at two or three days of age and resolving spontaneously by six months of age; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| convulsions | Seizures manifested by discontinuous involuntary skeletal muscular contractions, either brief contractions repeated at short intervals or longer ones interrupted by intervals of muscular relaxation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| convulsions, febrile | Seizures occurring in young children during febrile episodes due to a low convulsive threshold. The convulsions are usually a self-limiting disorder after the age of 5 years. (12 Dec 1998) |
| salaam convulsions | Brief (1 to 3 seconds) muscular spasm's in infants with West's syndrome, which often appear as nodding or salaam spasm's. Synonym: salaam convulsions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| puerperal convulsions | Convulsions and coma associated with hypertension, oedema, or proteinuria occurring in a woman following delivery. Synonym: puerperal convulsions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anaesthetics, dissociative | Intravenous anaesthetics that induce a state of sedation, immobility, amnesia, and marked analgesia. Subjects may experience a strong feeling of dissociation from the environment. The condition produced is similar to neuroleptanalgesia, but is brought about by the administration of a single drug. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dissociative anaesthesia | A form of general anaesthesia, but not necessarily complete unconsciousness, characterised by catalepsy, catatonia, and amnesia, especially that produced by phenylcyclohexylamine compounds, including ketamine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative disorders | Sudden temporary alterations in the normally integrative functions of consciousness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dissociative hysteria | An unconscious process sometimes seen in patients with multiple personalities, or in hysteria, in which a group of mental processes is separated from the rest of the thinking processes, resulting in an independent functioning of these processes and a loss of the usual relationships among them. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative reaction | Reaction characterised by such dissociative behaviour as amnesia, fugues, sleepwalking, and dream states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative recombination | <radiobiology> The combination of an electron with a positive molecular ion, followed by dissociation of the molecule in which the resulting atoms/molecules carry off the excess energy released in the recombination. (09 Oct 1997) |