posttraumatic epilepsy
- noun
- /ˌpoʊsttrɔːˈmætɪk ˌɛpɪˈlɛpsi/
- Specialized
:
epilepsia postraumática
- The study found that the presence of posttraumatic epilepsy and lower levels of education were associated with an increased risk of death in a Cox proportional hazards model that did not include race.
Examples
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After suffering a serious head injury, he was diagnosed with posttraumatic epilepsy that caused frequent seizures.
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She learned to manage her condition of posttraumatic epilepsy by following a strict medication regimen.
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Doctors explained that posttraumatic epilepsy can develop months or even years after a traumatic brain injury.
Synonyms
A condition causing repeated seizures after a head injury
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'epilepsy resulting from a prior traumatic injury' is directly and transparently derived from 'posttraumatic' (occurring after trauma) modifying 'epilepsy' (a seizure disorder). This adjective–noun medical compound follows regular compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically recognizable, so a learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the full meaning.
Etymology
Posttraumatic epilepsy breaks into simple parts: post means 'after', traumatic refers to a serious head 'injury', and epilepsy means 'repeated seizures'. So the term names seizures that begin after a head injury.
