Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun complex_absence

1 sense of complex absence

Sense 1
complex absence -- (an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes))
       => absence, absence seizure -- (the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy)