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petit mal
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petit mal

Type of epilepsy in which there is a momentary loss of awareness.



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When she was in class, she often suffered absence seizures, in which she would be unable to process information for between three and seven seconds.
Fortunately, seizure frequency tends to decline with time; four-fifths of all affected children outgrow absence seizures by age 20.
 
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