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

1 sense of jacksonian epilepsy

Sense 1
Jacksonian epilepsy -- (focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body)
       => cortical epilepsy, focal epilepsy -- (epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance))