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epileptic
/ ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk /
adjective
- of, relating to, or having epilepsy
noun
- a person who has epilepsy
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Usage
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Derived Forms
- ˌepiˈleptically, adverb
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Other Words From
- epi·lepti·cal·ly adverb
- anti·epi·leptic adjective noun
- nonep·i·leptic adjective noun
- postep·i·leptic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of epileptic1
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Example Sentences
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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