traumatic epilepsy
- noun
- /trɔˈmætɪk ˌɛpɪˈlɛpsi/
- Specialized
:
epilepsia traumática
- Cases of traumatic epilepsy often emerge months or years after the initial head injury.
Examples
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He has traumatic epilepsy.
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Doctors diagnosed the patient with traumatic epilepsy following the severe concussion.
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After his accident, he developed traumatic epilepsy that required long-term treatment.
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Don't ignore traumatic epilepsy!
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After suffering a severe head injury, he was diagnosed with traumatic epilepsy, experiencing multiple seizures.
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Children who endure serious head traumas may later develop traumatic epilepsy with repeated convulsions.
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She discovered that her traumatic epilepsy began after a fall during a soccer match, leading to seizures.
Synonyms
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A brain condition that causes sudden seizures or brief loss of awareness
A condition in which seizures start after a head injury and happen again
How Serious
- Specialized
- Specialized
75
3.7
144
5.3
32
1.0
91
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase directly combines 'traumatic' (caused by physical injury) with 'epilepsy' (a seizure disorder), so the meaning—epilepsy resulting from a head injury—is transparently derivable from its parts. This modifier + medical-condition pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The term traumatic epilepsy comes from traumatic, from the word 'trauma' meaning an injury, and epilepsy, meaning repeated seizures. It paints the image of a hard hit to the head that later makes the brain have seizures, so it means 'epilepsy' caused by a head injury.