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
Chiasmus is a Greek term meaning âdiagonal arrangement.â It is used to describe two successive clauses or sentences where the key words or phrases are repeated in both clauses, but in reverse order. For this reason, chiasmus is sometimes known as a criss-cross figure of speech. For example, consider the common phrase: