Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
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;
[syn: absence, absence seizure]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
absence seizure
n 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 [syn: absence, absence
seizure]