Status: current, Not sufficiently defined by necessary conditions definition status (core metadata concept). Date: 31-Jan 2002. Module: SNOMED CT core
Descriptions:
Outbound Relationships | Type | Target | Active | Characteristic | Refinability | Group | Values |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Is a | Partial seizure | false | Inferred relationship | Some | ||
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Finding site | Structure of nervous system (body structure) | false | Inferred relationship | Some | ||
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Interprets | Nervous system function | false | Inferred relationship | Some | ||
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Is a | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere. They may be discretely localised or more widely distributed. Focal seizures may originate in subcortical structures. | true | Inferred relationship | Some | ||
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Has definitional manifestation | Seizure | false | Inferred relationship | Some | ||
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Finding site | Brain structure | true | Inferred relationship | Some | 1 | |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Is a | An epileptic seizure that involves musculature in any form. The motor event could consist of an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement, regardless of whether focal, generalised, or unknown onset, and whether aware or impaired awareness. | true | Inferred relationship | Some |
Inbound Relationships | Type | Active | Source | Characteristic | Refinability | Group |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere and involving motor activity at the onset, with retained awareness (defined as knowledge of self and environment) throughout the entire duration of the seizure. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
On examination - focal (Jacksonian) fit | Is a | False | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
A rare epileptic and developmental encephalopathy characterized by seizure onset during the first months of life, focal seizures arising independently in both hemispheres, marked drug resistance, and severe, long-term cognitive disability. | Is a | False | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure consisting of sudden, brief (less than 100 milliseconds) involuntary single or multiple contraction(s) of muscles(s) or muscle groups of variable topography (axial, proximal limb, distal) at the onset, originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. Myoclonus is less regularly repetitive and less sustained than is clonus. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere and involving motor activity at the onset, with impaired awareness (defined as impairment of knowledge of self and environment) occurring at any point within the seizure. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
Focal epileptic spasms are a sudden flexion, extension, or mixed extension-flexion of predominantly proximal and truncal muscles, originating within networks limited to one hemisphere. Epileptic spasms frequently occur in clusters. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure with a sustained increase in muscle contraction at the onset, lasting a few seconds to minutes, originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure with jerking at the onset, that is regularly repetitive and involves unilateral muscle groups, originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure consisting of sudden loss or diminution of muscle tone at the onset, without apparent preceding myoclonic or tonic event, lasting approximately 1 to 2 seconds, involving head, trunk, jaw, or limb musculature, originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, that involves predominantly proximal limb or axial muscles producing irregular sequential ballistic movements at the onset, such as pedaling, pelvic thrusting, thrashing, rocking movements, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, that produces a more or less coordinated, purposeless, repetitive motor activity at the onset, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. Usually they occur when cognition is impaired and the subject is usually (but not always) amnesic for them afterward. This often resembles a voluntary movement and may consist of an inappropriate continuation of preictal motor activity. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some | |
An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere, involving at onset a sustained, forced conjugate ocular, cephalic, and/or truncal rotation or lateral deviation from the midline, regardless of whether aware or impaired awareness. | Is a | True | An epileptic seizure originating within networks limited to one hemisphere that involves musculature of any kind at the onset, regardless of whether aware or with impaired awareness. The motor activity could be an increase (positive) or decrease (negative) in muscle contraction to produce a movement. | Inferred relationship | Some |
This concept is not in any reference sets