### seizure:

Absence seizure
* are particularly common in children and teenagers, especially in girls.
* are rare but can occur in people with learning disabilities
  - in adults
  - sudden blank spells
  - very common in children and teenagers
* begin in childhood and involve a brief loss of awareness.
* can occur several times a day, and tend to come in clusters
  - take many forms, depending upon which part of the brain is affected
* take the form of a blank stare lasting only a few seconds.

Clonic seizure
* are repetitive, rhythmic jerks that involve both sides of the body at the same time.
* begin within days of birth and stop in weeks to months.
* cause repeated jerking movements of muscles on both sides of the body.

Expropriation
* are confiscation.
* comes in many forms.
* is the forced transfer of assets with compensation.

### seizure:

Febrile seizure
* are convulsions brought on by a fever in infants or small children
  - essentially impossible to prevent
  - limited to the young, probably under three years old
* are the most common form of childhood seizures
  - seizure disorder in childhood
  - type of seizures observed in the pediatric age group
  - usually benign but can cause considerable parental anxiety
* can be frightening, but they are generally harmless, and have no long-term effects
  - occur with only a minimally elevated temperature
  - result
* is known to aggregate in families.
* make parents and grandparents very anxious.
* seizure brought on by high fever and infection.
* tend to occur in families.

Focal seizure
* are less common and, as the term implies, involve only a part of the body
  - more likely from secondary epilepsy than primary
* can also occur.
* remain localized to one body region.

Impoundment
* Many impoundments have irregular shapes that create coves and peninsulas.
* are seizures.
* general term for the body of water, regardless of size, formed by damming a river.
* potential factor affecting habitat quality.
* receiving drainage waters from agricultural land can also function as buffer zones.

### seizure:

Kidnapping
* are a common practice in Yemen by tribesmen seeking concessions from the government
  - attacks
  - captures
  - criminal acts
* is an aggravated form of false imprisonment
  - offence under the common law of England and Wales
  - punishable by a maximum term of ninety-nine years of imprisonment
  - seen as a way to forcefully achieve the re-distribution of resources
* is the abduction and detention of person, to exact money or for other unlawful end
  - act of taking a hostage and asking for a sum of money, called ransom
* requires the willful seizing, confining, or carrying away of a live person.
* second degree felony.
* sign of the ill exercise of law and government and the absence of the modern state.
* single crime, rather than, say, one crime per hour of detention.
+ Crime in Brazil, Overview: Crime by country :: Brazil
  * Kidnappings do still happen. Increased police know-how has helped the problem. Prostitution 'per se' is not a crime in Brazil, unlike procuring. The Government of Brazil has increased efforts to combat child prostitution and sex tourism.
+ Hostage
  * Kidnapping is the act of taking a hostage and asking for a sum of money, called ransom. If the ransom is paid, the hostage is freed. If the ransom is not paid, the hostage is killed.

### seizure | kidnapping:

Parental kidnapping
* crime in every U.S. state and a felony in most.
* is the abduction of a child by a parent.

Myoclonic seizure
* Most myoclonic seizures are axial, which sometimes results in falls.
* appear by the second or third year and are often photosensitive.
* can occur before, during, or after the atonic seizures.
* cause single or multiple muscle twitches, jerks or spasms.
* consist of sporadic jerks, usually on both sides of the body.
* involve discharges in the motor cortex.