Lucas suffers from epilepsy. He is reading the paper when suddenly he loses focus of what he is doing for twelve seconds. What kind of seizure did he experience?

A brief loss of awareness lasting about 12 seconds, without any described convulsions, is characteristic of an absence seizure, traditionally called a petit mal seizure. Therefore, the answer is C) a petit mal seizure. A grand mal seizure typically involves major convulsions, while the question does not describe those.

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