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infantile spasm

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infantile spasm [′in·fən‚tīl ′spaz·əm]
(medicine)
A type of seizure seen in infants and young children, characterized by a sudden, brief, massive myoclonic jerk.


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The study also showed a connection between babies who experience West Syndrome, which causes infantile spasms, and children who will later receive an autism diagnosis.
Other forms are absence seizures (minor epilepsy or petit mal epilepsy); atonic seizures (akinetic unconsciousness with muscle relaxation resulting in fall); myclonic epilepsy (shock like intermittent muscular contractions) and infantile spasms (seen in infants).
 
 
 
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