epilepsy
noun
epilepsies
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pluralof epilepsy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
The mechanism underlying seizures known as absence epilepsies is rather different.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
