interictal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.11 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Between episodes, attacks, or paroxysms; as (usually, more specifically)
adj
Between episodes, attacks, or paroxysms; as (usually, more specifically):
Example Sentences
- "Considering these data, the spatial relationships between lesions and the localization of interictal spikes can vary and seem to depend on the lesion type."
- "The diagnosis of epilepsy is primarily clinical; however, routine interictal EEG plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of patients with this paroxysmal neurological disorder (Binnie and Stefan 1999; Pillai and Sperling 2006)."
- "This sleep disruption may, in part, be related to the interictal discharge. The interictal discharge is the electrical signature typically associated with epilepsy between seizures."
- "2012, Margitta Seeck, Donald L. Schomer, Ernst Nidermeyer, Chapter 33: Intercranial Monitoring: Depth, Subdural, and Foramen Ovale Electrodes, Donald L. Schomer, Fernando Lopes da Silva (editors), Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography, page 677, This may be the reason why most authorities in the field recommend relying mainly on the ictal data, and less on the interictal EEG."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English ictal English interictal From inter- + ictal.
Inflected Forms
inter-ictal (alternative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
interictal discharge
interictal spike