1. In both Impastato's and Cerletti's patients this voltage elicited a petit mal seizure. 2. Petit mal epilepsy makes a person motionless, staring into space for several seconds.3. He said, adding that he believed Chow to be suffering from petit mal epilepsy. 4. I am an epileptic with Petit mal seizures. 5. Her condition was first diagnosed as petit mal epilepsy, known more commonly today as absence seizures. 6. Another common generalized seizure is the " absence seizure, " previously known as a petit mal seizure. 7. Petit mal seizures are called absence seizures because the affected become motionless, staring into space for several seconds.8. Less extreme seizures _ causing staring spells, strange sensations or twitching _ are called " petit mal ." 9. Burgess said the mouse gene connected with petit mal seizures makes a channel in brain cells for conveying the chemical calcium. 10. Petit Mal is a human-sized robot consisting of two large wheels and a central body that appears to continuously be re-equilibrating itself.