Epileptic

Word EPILEPTIC
Character 9
Hyphenation ep i lep tic
Pronunciations /ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Epileptic"

What do we mean by epileptic?

Affected with epilepsy. adjective

Of, relating to, or associated with epilepsy. adjective

One who has epilepsy. noun

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of epilepsy.

Affected with epilepsy.

One affected with epilepsy. noun

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy. adjective

One affected with epilepsy. noun

A medicine for the cure of epilepsy. noun

Of, or relating to epilepsy. adjective

Of, or relating to an epileptic or epileptics, epileptic people. adjective

A person who has epilepsy. noun

A medicine for the cure of epilepsy. noun

Of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy adjective

A person who has epilepsy noun

A person who has epilepsy.

A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Epileptic

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The word "epileptic" in example sentences

Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig, the boys of Flight of the Conchords managed to mispronounce the word epileptic in about a handful of different ways, give a number of dogs seizures with their strobe lights, and wrestle each other to the ground in a catfight-like manner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Certain epileptic patients, known as split-brain patients, have had the corpus callosum surgically severed in order to control their seizures (although I believe there are better treatments now, so that the operation is no longer practiced). [ ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lyrica is an anti-epileptic, which is probably why it helps. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

I may say, however, that I have some data already at hand in which certain types of epileptic phenomena connected with infantile cerebral hemiplegia would show that the so-called epileptic constitution is much less marked in these cases, but is present, however, to a certain degree. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The essential kernel of Stekel's view is that the epileptic is a repressed criminal. ❋ Unknown (1916)

I hope to show that the main roots of the so-called epileptic alteration in general necessarily lie in the primary make-up of such individuals, and that the seizure phenomena of epilepsy only intensify and make more marked the fundamental make-up when the disease has definitely fastened itself upon the individual. ❋ Unknown (1916)

"The so-called epileptic cry is not invariably present, and petit mal is sometimes the half-way house to haut mal," responded Sir Henry. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Trey had 50 seizures a day, known as epileptic spasms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Okay, not actually that helpful, but it does appear to be superior to The Gathering Storm's depiction of Rand al'Thor having some kind of epileptic fit in front of the Addams Family house, even though it appears that Sweet is trading even more on past glories this is no less than his twenty-first piece of cover art for the series by my count. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2010)

Think of it as “a kind of epileptic, subject to unpredictable, strange seizures.” ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2009)

In a hemispherectomy, one half of the cerebral cortex of the brain is either removed frm the cranium or surgically disconnected from the remainder of the brain with the hope of stopping symptoms such as epileptic seizure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's difficult to describe their movement, but I imagine the word exactly halfway between "epileptic" and "horrific" in the dictionary might do it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More than once, Chris saw ex-Scrantonites, all of them older - than he was, being supported by monitors out of the classroom at the end of a session in a state closely resembling the kind of epileptic fit called "petit mal" ... nor were they ever allowed back on their - couches again. ❋ Blish, James (1957)

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