Fainting vs. Seizure

Faintingnoun

An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.

Faintingnoun

Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.

Seizurenoun

The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.

Seizurenoun

A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).

Seizurenoun

A sudden onset of pain or emotion.

Seizurenoun

(obsolete) Retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.

Seizurenoun

That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

Seizurenoun

The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

Seizurenoun

Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.

Seizurenoun

That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

Seizurenoun

a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease;

Seizurenoun

the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property

Seizurenoun

the act of taking of a person by force

Seizurenoun

the taking possession of something by legal process

Seizure

A seizure, formally known as an epileptic seizure, is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving only part of the body with variable levels of consciousness (focal seizure), to a subtle momentary loss of awareness (absence seizure).