EPILEPTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epileptic mean? 

• EPILEPTIC (noun)
  The noun EPILEPTIC has 1 sense:

1. a person who has epilepsy

  Familiarity information: EPILEPTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• EPILEPTIC (adjective)
  The adjective EPILEPTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy

  Familiarity information: EPILEPTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPILEPTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has epilepsy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("epileptic" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Derivation:

epileptic (of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy)

• EPILEPTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

epileptic seizure

Pertainym:

epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)

Derivation:

epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)

epileptic (a person who has epilepsy)

 Context examples 

The recordings have helped identify the source of a patient’s epileptic seizures as well as provide an opportunity to study how the brain encodes memories.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

An inherited or sporadic disorder characterized by epileptic seizures in the first four to six weeks of life.

(Benign Neonatal Epilepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

It is manifested with psychiatric symptoms and epileptic seizures.

(Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients develop epileptic seizures and behavioral changes.

(Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Epilepsy is most commonly treated with anti-epileptic drugs, but these drugs often have serious side effects and they do not prevent seizures in three out of 10 patients.

(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Chromosomal rearrangements affecting the gene may be associated with epileptic encephalopathy with spastic tetraparesis and severe psychomotor retardation associated with cerebral atrophy, developmental delay with recurrent infections or lymphoma.

(NKAIN2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat epileptic seizures and bipolar disorder and to prevent migraine headaches.

(Depakene, NCI Dictionary)

Recurrent conditions characterized by epileptic seizures which arise diffusely and simultaneously from both hemispheres of the brain.

(Generalized Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A hydantoin anticonvulsant with anti-epileptic activity.

(Ethotoin, NCI Thesaurus)

The epileptic episodes may be tonic, atonic, myoclonic, or absence seizures.

(Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)