myoclonic epilepsy

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myoclonic epilepsy [¦mī·ə¦klän·ik ′ep·ə‚lep·sē]

(medicine)

Recurrent irregular, arrhythmic clonic muscle spasms, usually occurring more frequently in the morning or on going to sleep and often associated with other types of seizures.

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