Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ICTAL

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Definitions of ICTAL

1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a sudden physiologic attack such as a seizure, stroke or headache.

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Examples of Using ICTAL in a Sentence

• The ictal period is the seizure itself; the interictal period is the time between seizures, when brain activity is more normal; and the preictal period is the time leading up to a seizure:.
• Right parietal and occipital encephalomalacia, biparietal atrophy, and bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria has been possibly associated with ictal abdominal pain associated with abdominal epilepsy.
• The basic idea of ISAS is to compute the difference between an ictal and interictal SPECT scan for a single patient.
• Obvious ictal motor activity was seen in 78 percent (Todd's paresis is more common after any clonic seizure activity).
• SPECT may also be used which involves the use of a radiotracer that is taken up by the ictal region of the brain where, typically the tumor lies.
• Some individuals may exhibit hyperreligiosity, characterized by increased, usually intense, religious feelings and philosophical interests, and partial (temporal lobe) epilepsy patients experiencing frequent auras, perceived as numinous in character, exhibit greater ictal and interictal spirituality.
• The immediate type may be an exaggeration of the afterimage whereas the delayed type may indicate that there is cerebral involvement, such as an ictal manifestation or a structural lesion, but has also been shown to be inducible by drugs.
• A specific software package was developed to locate the epileptogenic focus using Ictal and Inter-ictal SPECT images and MRI employing the SISCOM methodology.
• On a 10-20 scalp electrode EEG, the ictal activity commonly begins temporally and spreads hemispherically and/or bilaterally.
• It is an occurrence of abnormal, paroxysmal, and persistent ictal rhythm with an amplitude of 2 microvolts in the electroencephalogram,.
• Ictal bradycardia is a potential cause or reason for ictal asystole to occur and is believed to help explain the phenomenon of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
• During this period he and his team discovered that glycine is a coagonist rather than modulator of NMDA receptors, that shrinkage of extracellular space mediates the transition between interictal and ictal states in the high potassium model of seizures, that a single amino acid residue controls calcium permeation in glutamate receptor channels, and that ifenprodil analogs inhibit NMDA receptors by increasing the sensitivity of receptors to proton inhibition.

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