ethosuximide

eth·o·sux·i·mide

[eth-oh-suhk-suh-mahyd]
noun Pharmacology.
an anticonvulsant, C 7 H 11 NO 2 , used in medicine to treat certain kinds of epilepsy, especially petit mal.

Origin:
eth(yl) + -o- + suximide apparently shortening of succinimide (succin(ic) + imide)

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ethosuximide

noun
an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy 
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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