[
US
/ˈɛpəˌɫɛpsi/
]
[ UK /ˈɛpɪlˌɛpsi/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛpɪlˌɛpsi/ ]
NOUN
- a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions
How To Use epilepsy In A Sentence
- The course content included identification, screening and early intervention and medical implications like epilepsy, hyperactivity and brain dysfunctions.
- Other innovative drugs whose development he oversaw included atracurium, a muscle relaxant, and lamotrigine, an epilepsy drug.
- Men with high thyroid hormone levels and those who use antiepilepsy medications have an increase in SHBG. A Baby at Last!
- Objective To assess the value of ictal video-electroencephalography monitoring (IVEEG) in presurgical evaluation for medically intractable nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy(TLE).
- Your death was determined to be “sudden unexplained death in epilepsy,” a term so cruelly nonsensical it might as well have been “fickle finger of fate.” Knowing Jesse
- Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
- Silver: Before the dawn of antibiotics, silver was used on the skin as an antimicrobial agent and disinfectant and internally to treat epilepsy, gonorrhea and tropical sprue.
- In some illnesses, for example migraine or epilepsy, the diagnosis may be evident from the history alone.
- At some future time I hope to take up the epileptoid convulsions and show their relationship and variation from that of the mechanism of essential epilepsy. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Epilepsy refers to recurrent seizures that reflect aberrant electrical activity of cerebral cortical neurons.