gelastic

Over the next two years Caldwell experienced several tonic-clonic seizures in addition to other types: focal seizures, which involve staring into space, and rare gelastic seizures, which result in bursts of uncontrolled laughter or gibberish.

Gelastic seizures are a relatively rare form of epilepsy, said Solomon Moshé, a pediatric neurologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

But Burgos Zuleta discovered that the true cause of the girl’s laughing seizures, medically called gelastic seizures, was a brain tumor.

Man had been defined as a gelastic apteryx, but in view of the attitude of women towards the Plumage Bill the definition could hardly be allowed to fit the requirements of the spindle side of creation.