epileptic's Usage Examples:

It is said that Mahomet occasionally uttered such a passage immediately after one of those epileptic fits which not only his followers, but (for a time at least) he himself also, regarded as tokens of intercourse with the higher powers.

The elder brother was set aside as imbecile and epileptic.

In one of his incomprehensible freaks he set off for Lyons, and, after abandoning his companion in an epileptic fit, returned to Annecy to find Madame de Warens gone.

transient cerebral ischaemia if the stereotypical nature of the epileptic symptoms is not recognized.

In his boyhood he suffered from epileptic fits, and could therefore not receive a regular education.

precipitant factor in the causation of epileptic seizures.

Brain cells calm down, which in some people even help prevent epileptic seizures Another benefit is that ketones have shown to sterilize urine against infection and may even help to dissolve some kidney stones.

The state supports a Mental Hospital (1884, with provision for feeble-minded and non-insane epileptics since 1907) at Provo, a state Industrial School (1889) at Ogden and a state prison (1850) at Salt Lake City.

A state institution for feebleminded of western Pennsylvania at Polk, Venango county, was opened in 1897 (act of 1893), and the eastern Pennsylvania state institution for feeble-minded and epileptic at Spring City, Chester county, was opened in 1908 (act of 1903).

Colette suffered an epileptic seizure which caused her to stop breathing.

References: Focal retrograde amnesia in a patient with transient epileptic amnesia.

Recurrent partial seizures are often misdiagnosed as transient cerebral ischaemia if the stereotypical nature of the epileptic symptoms is not recognized.

Synonyms:

sick person, sufferer, diseased person,

Antonyms:

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