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epileptic [ ep-uh -lep -tik ] SHOW IPA
/ ˌɛp əˈlɛp tɪk / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective
pertaining to or symptomatic of epilepsy .
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Origin of epileptic 1600–10; <Late Latin
epilēpticus <Greek
epilēptikós, equivalent to
epílēpt (
os ) (see
epilepsy ) +
-ikos -ic
OTHER WORDS FROM epileptic ep·i·lep·ti·cal·ly, adverb an·ti·ep·i·lep·tic, adjective, noun non·ep·i·lep·tic, adjective, noun post·ep·i·lep·tic, adjective
Words nearby epileptic epilation ,
epilator ,
epilatory ,
epilemma ,
epilepsy ,
epileptic ,
epileptiform ,
epileptogenic ,
epileptogenic zone ,
epileptoid ,
epilimnion
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How to use epileptic in a sentence Doctors in Estonia were monitoring the brain of a 87-year-old patient to detect and treat his newly developed epileptic seizures.
Further investigation found that Caleb and Patrick carried a different rare genetic variant that, in studies with mice, has been connected to epileptic deaths at a young age, the Associated Press reported.
Such electrode implants are helping reduce Parkinson’s tremors, epileptic seizures and uncontrollable movements caused by Tourette’s syndrome.
A day later, the most problematic scenes, called “brain dance” sequences in the game, were adjusted via a software patch to be safe for epileptic and photosensitive players.
“This is a pattern of lights designed to trigger an epileptic episode and it very much did that in my own personal playthrough,” she wrote.
One man was having an epileptic seizure; one had a nosebleed; one had full-blown African Malaria; one had the flu.
After starting a new drug, an epileptic woman started writing 10 to 15 poems each day.
She then suffered an epileptic seizure and was treated with an appropriate medication.
The 21-year-old, who studied at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had suffered an epileptic seizure.
Her first starring role came in the 2009 lo-fi indie Exploding Girl, about a young epileptic woman on a summer break from college.
Thus, in the majority of cases, marriage seems to have no influence on the epileptic attacks of women, although in 27.2 per cent.
To ascertain the exciting causes of epileptic seizures with exactitude is usually a matter of very great difficulty.
Bromide of potassium is generally recognised as the most effective anti-epileptic remedy we at present possess.
On the other hand, no class of patients is apt to exhibit the low cunning of the insane in so marked a degree as the epileptic .
He gave way utterly to the species of epileptic motion, full of passion, which was common with him.
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British Dictionary definitions for epileptic
adjective
of, relating to, or having epilepsy
noun
a person who has epilepsy
Derived forms of epileptic epileptically , adverb usage for epileptic Rather than talking about an epileptic or epileptics , it is better to talk about a person with epilepsy and people with epilepsy
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Medical definitions for epileptic
adj.
Affected with epilepsy.
Of, relating to, or associated with epilepsy.
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