মৃগী; মির্গি; খিচুনি
mrigi; mirgi; khichuni
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্য / nouns
Lexical status
Established disease name and event descriptor; transcript variants retained.
Recorded forms
মির্গি ব্যারাম; মৃগী রোগের; খিচুনি; খিচ দিতো
Research meaning — English
1. A caregiver contrasts a doctor-attributed mirgi label with a healer-attributed jinn explanation. 2. Khichuni occurs in a jinn-framed account; elsewhere an interviewer reformulates khich dito as khichuni.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. এক পরিচর্যাকারী ডাক্তারের মির্গি ব্যারাম নাম এবং কবিরাজের জ্বীন-ব্যাখ্যা পাশাপাশি বলেন। 2. খিচুনি জ্বীন-আলোচনায় আসে; অন্য ঘটনায় প্রশ্নকারী খিচ দিতো বয়ানকে খিচুনি বলে পুনর্গঠন করেন।
What this research adds
Competing reported explanatory labels, not verified equivalence. Preserves the source of each attribution. Event description and elicited naming vary. Prevents diagnosing all described episodes as epilepsy.
Lien avec la santé mentale
The caregiver describes an episode with closed eyes, reduced awareness and gradual recovery. Medical mirgi language and a healer’s jinn explanation compete in the account rather than confirming either mechanism.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
- Avoid describing a person by a stigmatizing term unless the person self-identifies that way and the wording is necessary.
- For suicide-related coverage, avoid method detail, sensational headlines, and single-cause explanations; include help-seeking information.
- Link to this entry’s evidence limits and distinguish contributor wording from analyst interpretation.
Established meaning — English
1. Epilepsy: a brain disease involving recurrent unprovoked seizures. 2. A bodily spasm or convulsive movement. [CRLEX10]
Established meaning — Bengali
1. বারবার অপ্ররোচিত সিজার হওয়ার মস্তিষ্কের রোগ; ইংরেজি পরিভাষা epilepsy। 2. দেহ বা অঙ্গে আকস্মিক অনিয়ন্ত্রিত টান বা আক্ষেপ। [CRLEX10]
Contexte d'utilisation
Preserve who names the condition: doctor, caregiver or interviewer.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
Convulsive language, tongue protrusion and falling are described in different contexts.
Attributed origins
Jinn attribution and doctor-attributed epilepsy are competing reports.
Variation and visualization
Event, disease and spiritual attribution are not universal equivalents.
Ce qui reste incertain
The event needs a separate assessment because the label and witness account alone do not establish epilepsy or a non-epileptic explanation. খিচুনি is the reported episode word, while মির্গি/মৃগী is a named explanation; a jinn prompt does not make either a possession diagnosis.
Commonness and evidence limits
The selected evidence spans one caregiver KII and two NGIs. Repeated MS transcript blocks are not new corroboration, and these passages cannot estimate event or disease prevalence.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
No synonym established for this entry.
Antonyms and contrasts
No antonym established for this entry.
Related terms
খিঁচুনি / খিঁচনি / খিচুনি (Bangla): Recorded dictionary variants, not separate diagnoses. — C09.2 [CRLEX10]
Across languages
Hindi / Urdu: मिर्गी / مِرگی (mirgi) — epilepsy Medical lexical counterpart Matches the disease-name family. Historical dictionary symptom imagery is not a complete account of modern epilepsy. [CRLEX11] English: convulsion — convulsive movement Event-level gloss of খিচুনি Kept apart from the disease-name epilepsy. No convulsion-to-diagnosis inference. [CRLEX10; CRLIT_R19]
অংশগ্রহণকারী: কবিরাজরা কয় যে অর লগে জ্বীন আছে। জ্বীনরা অরে এইরকমের কইরা রাখছে। আর ডাক্তারে কয় যে অর … ওই মির্গি ব্যারাম হইছে।
All evidence IDs: E0126; E0211; E0212; E0213; E0584; E0585; E0586
Literature notes and references
LN041: Clinical assessment of suspected seizures needs the episode history and possible mimics; event and disease terms are not interchangeable. [CRLIT_R19]
Points de vue selon différents contextes
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