Seizure (disambiguation)

Seizure may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• 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
• "Seizure" (Dynasty), an episode of Dynasty (1981 TV series)
• Seizures (album), a 2009 studio album by Kisschasy

Law

• 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
• Seizure (law enforcement), when an authority takes possession of an object until a case is resolved
• Distraint, the seizure of property to attain an owed payment

Medicine

• 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

• Seizure, the act of a communications circuit going off-hook