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Definition of Anticonvulsive
1. a. Good against convulsions.
Definition of Anticonvulsive
1. Adjective. Acting against or serving to prevent convulsions. ¹
2. Noun. Any anticonvulsant drug. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anticonvulsive
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Medical Definition of Anticonvulsive
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticonvulsive
Literary usage of Anticonvulsive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1899)
"Here again I fail to see any possible benefit to be derived from opium that cannot
be obtained by the use of other drugs more directly anticonvulsive and ..."
2. Disability Evaluation Under Social Security edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"Determination of blood levels of phenytoin sodium or other anticonvulsive drugs
may serve to indicate whether the prescribed medication is being taken. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"In the last such marked benefit and cures were produced, that the Hemp •was
pronounced an anticonvulsive remedy of the greatest value. ..."
4. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"The anticonvulsive effect of AMG was reversed in a dose- dependent manner by
exogenous CORT and by the MR agonist deoxycorticosterone, but not by the GR ..."