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Doc i would to ask what is etiology and what is idiopathic?and wahat is petit mal?
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Definitions: 1) etiology = what's the cause? 2) idiopathic = "we don't know" 3) petit mal is a specific form of epilepsy only seen in childhood where a person briefly (seconds) blanks out usually without a convulsion. However, sometimes the term is wrongly applied to the symptoms in adults, where it can be another kind of epilepsy, or a non-epileptic medical/psychiatric condition.
Answered 9/28/2016
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