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myoclonic

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myoclonic
pertaining to myoclonus.

myoclonic epilepsy
myoclonic jerk
a generalized seizure consisting of a jerk of most muscles in the body.


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MY daughter is severely disabled and suffers from a severe form of myoclonic epilepsy.
Dean Norris, 28, also of Southam, suffers from myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibres disease, which causes him to jerk uncontrollably and is depriving him of the use of his right arm.
Other types of generalized seizures are: tonic seizures which involve muscie rigidity but are not followed by a clonic phase; clonic seizures which involve violent rhythmic contractions but is not preceded by tonic phase; myoclonic seizures in which a person has brief involuntary jerking of the torso or extremities; and atonic seizures in which the skeletal muscles lose all tone causing the person to suddenly drop to the floor.
 
 
 
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