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Seizure may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Seizure (album), a 1989 album by New Zealand musician Chris Knox
- Seizure (Cook novel), a 2003 novel by Robin Cook
- Seizure (film), a 1974 film by Oliver Stone
- Seizure (journal), a peer-reviewed journal covering epilepsy
- Seizure (Reichs novel), a 2011 novel by Kathy Reichs
- "Seizure", a season 1 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Seizures (album), a 2009 studio album by Kisschasy
Law
edit- Descriptive seizure (also called "Anton Piller order" in the UK and "saisie-contrefaçon" in France), a court order to search premises and seize and/or describe evidence without prior warning
- Search and seizure, the legal removal of property
Medicine
edit- Convulsion, a synonym for seizure
- Epileptic seizure, caused by abnormal, rhythmic discharges of cortical neurons
- Non-epileptic seizure, which mimics epileptic seizure but has a different cause
Other uses
edit- Seizure, the act of a communications circuit going off-hook