pseudoseizure

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pseudoseizure /pseu·do·sei·zure/ (-se´zhur) an attack resembling an epileptic seizure but having purely psychological causes, lacking the electroencephalographic changes of epilepsy, and sometimes able to be stopped by an act of will.

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