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anticonvulsant

NOUN
  1. a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)

How To Use anticonvulsant In A Sentence

  • Women on anticonvulsant medication should be switched to the least teratogenic drug, and the smallest clinically effective dose.
  • The most useful drugs are anticonvulsants, especially gabapentin and carbamazepine, and tricyclic antidepressants, especially amitriptyline.
  • The most useful drugs are anticonvulsants, especially gabapentin and carbamazepine, and tricyclic antidepressants, especially amitriptyline.
  • Anticonvulsant drugs may also be prescribed to protect against convulsions due to eclampsia.
  • Although seizures are easily controlled with anticonvulsants in some patients, others are refractory to drugs.
  • In contrast, only 5 of the children with seizure disorders in the control group regularly took anticonvulsant medication.
  • For decades children were given long term anticonvulsant drugs to prevent the recurrence of febrile seizures.
  • Anticonvulsant medications, including phenobarbital, valproic acid, phenytoin, and carbamazepine, have a significant lowering effect on carnitine levels.
  • If you or somebody you care for takes the anticonvulsant drug lamotrigine (Lamictal and generic), you should be aware that in rare cases it can cause inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord, a serious condition known as aseptic meningitis. Epilepsy, bipolar drug Lamictal linked to brain inflammation
  • Her eyesight was impaired by glaucoma and she was on anticonvulsant drugs.
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