Absence or petit mal seizures: These are most common in childhood.

Tiger was frozen in the grip of a petit mal seizure.

In petit mal, however, a person may experience attacks as often as 50 to 100 times a day.

Most petit mal seizures last only a few seconds.

A petit mal seizure may not sound like much, but it's...

I think you had a petit mal seizure.

He may additionally have had absence seizures (petit mal) in his youth.

Then his /petit mal/ attacks would space themselves way out and he'd be better for a week, about.

Limbs shook with petit mal seizures in a futile attempt to keep warm.

Petit mal seizures occur most commonly in people under age 20, usually in children ages 6 to 12.

Atypical petit mal seizures begin slower and last longer.

He had stopped twitching violently, but he wasn't out of his petit mal yet.

As the answer rang in her head, the second shock wave struck; and this time it was no petit mal, but the full fit.

"That's not an excuse, that's a seizure of petit mal.

Specific symptoms of typical petit mal seizures may include:

Petit mal on a plate.

What I had is called a "petit mal" seizure or an "absence" seizure.

Katy was a 3 year old girl with petit mal epilepsy and suspected mild mental handicap.

In a twist of fate, his childhood history of petit mal seizures made him unacceptable.

Julia does have scar in her brain called petit mal that causes her to blank out.

Absence or petit mal seizures are brief losses of consciousness that occur for 3 to 30 seconds.

Petit mal may be confused with simple or complex partial seizures, or even with attention deficit disorder.

Unexplained difficulties in school and learning difficulties may be the first sign of petit mal seizures.

Petit Mal (1977)

Epileptic automatisms are also associated "with the absence attacks of petit mal epilepsy."