A convulsive state following and causally related to head injury; with brain damage either manifested clinically or ascertained by special examinations such as computed tomography. To assume causal relationship, the individual must have had no previous epilepsy, no cerebral disease, and no other brain trauma. The attacks should have started, depend...
epileptic seizures following a head injury.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. a convulsive state following and causally related to head injury; with brain damage either manifested clinically or ascertained by special examinations such as computed tomography. To assume causal relationship, the patient must have had no previous epilepsy, no cerebral disease, and no other brain trauma. The attacks sho...
[n] - a convulsive epileptic state caused by a head injury
traumatic epilepsy noun a convulsive epileptic state caused by a head injury