A diagnosis of absence seizures is made when parents or teachers report that the child is having staring spells and the doctor sees a typical pattern on the childâs EEG. Typical absence seizures can often be triggered in the doctorâs office by asking the child to hyperventilate (breathe fast and deeply).
chi noun (energy) âº [U] medical uk / tÊiË / us or qi in some systems of Chinese medicine and exercise, the most important energy that a person has Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Etymology[edit] Chic is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s. Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was not so used in Fr[ench]..