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postictal

adjective

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Relating to the altered state of consciousness, confusion or drowsiness that follows a seizure.

He was drowsy and disoriented in the postictal period but gradually returned to baseline.

Topic: Neurology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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