Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing or producing convulsions.
- noun An agent, such as a drug, that causes convulsions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing muscular spasms.
- noun An agent which causes muscular spasms.
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- adjective Causing or producing
convulsions ;convulsive . - noun An
agent , such as adrug , that causes convulsions; a convulsant agent.
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Examples
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Perhaps the lead news item is that an advisory panel to the FDA recommended against approval for Qnexa, a drug that combines phentermine (an amphetamine) and topiramate (an anti-convulsant).
David Katz, M.D.: Weight Loss and Wonder Drugs: Something Is Fishy 2010
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For Lauren, a breakthrough came in 2000 when the anti-convulsant drug Keppra proved effective in stopping her seizures.
David And Susan Axelrod Discuss Their Daughter's Long Battle With Epilepsy (VIDEOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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For Lauren, a breakthrough came in 2000 when the anti-convulsant drug Keppra proved effective in stopping her seizures.
David And Susan Axelrod Discuss Their Daughter's Long Battle With Epilepsy (VIDEOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Two examples are phenobarbital, an anti-convulsant, and chloral-hydrate, a sedative.
BioIdentical Hormone Disinformation From AP Medical Writer, Marilynn Marchione 2009
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Half received treatment with the drug topiramate, an anti-convulsant sold under the brand name Topamax, while the other half received a placebo.
Epilepsy Drug Helps Alcoholics Quit the Bottle | Impact Lab 2007
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The epilepsy, Mr. Fiennes explains, had left lesions on Richard's brain that even a baroque array of anti-convulsant medications could not change.
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The ability of aspartame intake to modify seizure susceptibility, Â their speed of onset, and the amount of convulsant required to produce the seizures among mice given treatments known to be epileptogenic has been looked at (25).
Santa Fe Pediatrician Regales Hawaii Legislative Committee with Dangers of Aspartame 2008
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By the time she died on Dec. 13, 2006, little Rebecca was taking Clonidine, as well as the anti-convulsant Depakote and the anti-psychotic Seroquel.
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It also means that they've now got me on a new anti-convulsant, but no one knows how much I can take or for how long.
This is real bravery 2007
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The six doctors attempting to treat me have all gotten together and decided that I am a "very interesting case" and I probably *don't* have cancer, but rather a devastating and extremely rare sensitivity to an antic-convulsant epilepsy med I've been taking for years.
This is real bravery 2007
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