Definition of Epilepsies

1. Noun. (plural of epilepsy) ¹

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Definition of Epilepsies

1. epilepsy [n] - See also: epilepsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epilepsies

epilating wax
epilation
epilations
epilator
epilators
epilatory
epilayer
epilayers
epilemma
epilemmal ending
epilepidoma
epilepsia
epilepsia major
epilepsia minor
epilepsia partialis continua
epilepsies (current term)
epilepsy
epilepsy with grand mal seizures on awakening
epilepsy with myoclonic absences
epileptic
epileptic dementia
epileptic seizure
epileptical
epileptically
epileptick
epileptics
epileptiform
epileptiform neuralgia
epileptogeneses
epileptogenesis

Literary usage of Epilepsies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Modern study of epilepsy has shown that it is much more exact to speak of epilepsies than of epilepsy. The major or so-called grand mal attack of epilepsy ..."

2. A text-book of mental diseases: with special reference to the pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"Such functional disturbances of the nervous mechanism as issue in what are termed epilepsies may, or may not, have for their accompaniment serious mental ..."

3. A Text-book of mental diseases: With Special Reference to the Pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"Such functional disturbances of the nervous mechanism as issue in what are termed epilepsies may, or may not, have for their accompaniment serious mental ..."

4. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"epilepsies AND THEIR LEGAL RELATIONS. g 307. Are Epileptics of Unsound Mind?—l*18! ... The real Nature of epilepsies.—Much light has been thrown upon this ..."

5. The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders: (The Psychoneuroses and Their by Paul Dubois (1908)
"epilepsies, Intoxications — Possibility of Escape from It by Education of the Moral Ego Pinel ; Curative Action of the Work of Logical Reflection — The ..."

6. The Exceptional Child by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (1917)
"About 85 per cent of all epilepsies begin before the twentieth year, the essential epileptic periods being the years between the fifth and the eighth, ..."

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