1. The occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
   "The child had brief absence seizures that looked like daydreaming";
   - absence

Derived forms: absence seizures

Type of: ictus, raptus, seizure

Part of: epilepsia minor, petit mal, petit mal epilepsy

Encyclopedia: Absence seizure