Usually means: Brief, sudden lapses of consciousness.
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  1. petit mal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. petit mal: Merriam-Webster
  3. petit mal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. petit mal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. petit mal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. petit mal: Vocabulary.com
  7. petit mal: Wordnik
  8. petit mal: Wiktionary
  9. petit mal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. petit mal: Dictionary.com
  11. petit mal: FreeDictionary.org
  12. petit mal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. petit mal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Petit mal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. petit mal: Rhymezone

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  1. petit mal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. petit mal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Petit mal: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Petit mal: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (petit mal)

noun:  (neurology) A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as minor, the person becomes vacant or unaware, but not involving spasms and unconsciousness. These seizures are usually brief, lasting up to 30 seconds, and may include twitching. A formal medical term would be absence seizures.

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