Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected with epilepsy.
- adjective Of, relating to, or associated with epilepsy.
- noun One who has epilepsy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of epilepsy.
- Affected with epilepsy.
- noun One affected with epilepsy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
- noun One affected with epilepsy.
- noun A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to
epilepsy . - adjective Of, or relating to an epileptic or epileptics, epileptic people.
- noun A person who has
epilepsy . - noun archaic A
medicine for thecure ofepilepsy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy
- noun a person who has epilepsy
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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). [
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Lyrica is an anti-epileptic, which is probably why it helps.
The Lesbian sleepover, a specialist, collecting things, and local politics Elizabeth McClung 2008
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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.
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The essential kernel of Stekel's view is that the epileptic is a repressed criminal.
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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.
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"The so-called epileptic cry is not invariably present, and petit mal is sometimes the half-way house to haut mal," responded Sir Henry.
The Shrieking Pit 1907
whichbe commented on the word epileptic
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
May 7, 2008
dontcry commented on the word epileptic
Perhaps, but I bet he'd have preferred being called: a person who has epilepsy. :)
May 8, 2008
dailyword commented on the word epileptic
One of the soldiers in "Black Hawk Down" was this.
September 10, 2012