seizure Definition
sei·zure (sē′z̸hər)
noun
- the act of one who seizes, or an instance of this
- the state or an instance of being seized
- a sudden attack, esp. of a disease such as epilepsy
seizure Synonyms
seizure
n.
seizure Law Definition
n
The act of confiscating a
persons property by legal process; a forcible taking of property into custody
by a court.
seizure Telecom Definition
A signal over a line or trunk between connected equipment indicating a service or access request. The first step in establishing a stable call, a seizure or series of seizures creates a signaling path between the components, allowing supervision signaling. A seizure involves a physical state change in the circuit as a device goes off-hook and the circuit transitions from an idle state to a busy state and current flows, for example. See also line, signal, signaling and control, and trunk.
seizure Usage Examples
Converse of object
- generalize: There are several different kinds of generalized seizures which may look very different.
- trigger: Large amounts of any liquid, even water, can trigger a seizure in a person with epilepsy.
- generalize: People who have generalized seizures usually fall to the ground and lose consciousness.
- induce: Will the new medicine help prevent, or could it induce seizures?
Adjective modifier
- epileptic: On New Years Eve 1997, I had my first full epileptic seizure.
- tonic-clonic: Tonic-clonic seizures Basic guidelines From behind, hold the person's head above water.
- febrile: Clinical features Typically no history of febrile seizure Auras common.
- clonic: Partial seizures can progress into a generalized tonic clonic seizure.
- partial: Features of partial seizures of lateral temporal lobe origin.
- non-epileptic: With non-epileptic seizures there would be no such activity.
Modifies a noun
- recurrence: The risk of seizure recurrence is greater in the first weeks or months after an initial seizure 1-3.
- threshold: The seizure threshold may be lowered by external factors.
- onset: Clustering occurred in nine of ten patients with more than one seizure onset zone.
- frequency: At the end of the study, average seizure frequency had fallen to forty seizures per week.
- severity: Title: Remote symptomatic epilepsy does seizure severity increase mortality?
Noun used with modifier
- lobe: Back to top Clinical diagnosis The evolution in time of frontal lobe seizures.
- Bolshevik: After the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the memory of the war was subsumed into the history of the revolutionary process.
- tonic: They are mainly clonic, sometimes with apnoeic spells; tonic seizures have rarely been described.
- absence: Absence seizures may occur in clusters, dozens of times a day.
- onset: This may also be considered in children with Sturge-Weber syndrome with early onset seizures.
Browse dictionary entries near seizure
- ‹ seizor
- ‹ seizing
- ‹ seizin
- ‹ seized
- ‹ seize
- ‹ seismoscope
- ‹ seismometer
- ‹ seismology
- ‹ seismograph
- ‹ seismogram

