Ictal

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The term ictal , another name: ictual (derived from the Latin ictus 'blow' ) is a medical term that literally means "during an attack / during an attack". The terms to be derived interictal mean “between two or more seizures” and postictal mean “after one or more seizures”. These terms are particularly used in relation to epilepsy .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Krämer: Small Lexicon of Epileptology . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2005, ISBN 978-3-13-133831-0 , pp. 141 ( limited preview in Google Book search).