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Seizure

Seizure may refer to:

Medical term

A seizure, also known as a convulsion or fit, is a sudden loss of consciousness, a change in one's state of consciousness, or a loss of control over one's body.

• Seizure types:
  • Epileptic Seizure
    • Absence seizure
    • Atonic seizure
    • Focal seizures
      • Simple partial seizure
      • Complex partial seizure
    • Gelastic seizure
    • Jacksonian seizure
    • Subclinical seizure
    • Tonic-clonic seizure
  • Non-epileptic seizure
    • Febrile seizure
    • Post-traumatic seizure
    • Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Legal Term

Seizure is the legal removal of property.

• Search and seizure (main article)
  • Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure, in military
• The Steel Seizure case

Telecommunications

In telecommunications, a seizure is an attempted call, as in Answer/Seizure ratio

Other

• Seizure (film), a 1974 Oliver Stone film
• Seizure (novel), a 2003 Robin Cook novel
• Seizure (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode), a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Beautiful Seizure, an album by volcano!