| EFA | Epilepsy Foundation of America; essential fatty acid; extrafamily adoptee |
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| EPI | echo planar imaging; electronic portal imaging; Emotion Profile Index; epilepsy; epinephrine; epithe... |
| epil | epilepsy, epileptic |
| GE | gastric empyting; gastroemotional; gastroenteritis; gastroenterology; gastroenterostomy; gastroesoph... |
| GM | gastric mucosa; Geiger-Muller [counter]; general medicine; genetic manipulation; geometric mean; gia... |
| laparoscopically assisted surgery | Operative procedure performed using combined laparoscopic and open techniques; most commonly applied to colon or small intestinal resections with anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| laparoscopic surgery | Operative procedure performed using minimally invasive surgical technique for exposure that avoids traditional incision. Visualization is achieved using a fibre optic instrument, usually attached to a video camera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laser surgery | A type of operation using the cutting powers of laser beams from various sources. The use of a laser either to vaporise surface lesions or to make bloodless cuts in tissue. It does not include the coagulation of tissue by laser (laser coagulation). (12 Dec 1998) |
| anosognosic epilepsy | Epilepsy characterised by attacks of which the person is unaware. Synonym: anosognosic seizures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| automatic epilepsy | <neurology> Seizures with elaborate and multiple sensory, motor, and/or psychic components. A common feature is the clouding of consciousness and amnesia for the event. Some clinical manifestations may include more complex behaviours like burst of anger, emotional outbursts, fear or automatisms. The EEG often reveals spike discharges in the temporal lobe during sleep. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autonomic epilepsy | Episodes of autonomic dysfunction presumably due to diencephalic irritation. Synonym: diencephalic epilepsy, vasomotor epilepsy, vasovagal epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes | A specific epilepsy syndrome beginning in childhood and remitting in adolescence, characterised by nocturnal simple partial motor seizures or generalised tonic-clonic seizures. EEG shows centrotemporal spikes that are activated by sleep and an otherwise normal EEG background. (05 Mar 2000) |
| major epilepsy | tonic-clonic seizure |
| vasomotor epilepsy | Episodes of autonomic dysfunction presumably due to diencephalic irritation. Synonym: diencephalic epilepsy, vasomotor epilepsy, vasovagal epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vasovagal epilepsy | Episodes of autonomic dysfunction presumably due to diencephalic irritation. Synonym: diencephalic epilepsy, vasomotor epilepsy, vasovagal epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| generalised epilepsy | A major category of epilepsy syndromes characterised by one or more types of generalised seizures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| generalised tonic-clonic epilepsy | tonic-clonic seizure |
| masked epilepsy | A form of epilepsy characterised by a paroxysmal disturbance, such as headache or vomiting, associated with an epileptic electroencephalographic pattern. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parietal lobe epilepsy | A localization-related epilepsy where seizures originate within the parietal lobe. Seizure semiology may involve abnormalities of sensation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| matutinal epilepsy | A form of epilepsy which occurs on awakening. (05 Mar 2000) |