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Grand mal

//ˌɡɹɒnˈmæl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as severe and involve spasms and unconsciousness. A formal medical term would be tonic-clonic seizures. uncountable
  2. 2
    a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body wordnet
  3. 3
    epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French grand mal (literally “great illness”).

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