Definition of Epileptics

1. Noun. (plural of epileptic) ¹

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Definition of Epileptics

1. epileptic [n] - See also: epileptic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epileptics

epilepidoma
epilepsia
epilepsia major
epilepsia minor
epilepsia partialis continua
epilepsies
epilepsy
epilepsy with grand mal seizures on awakening
epilepsy with myoclonic absences
epileptic
epileptic dementia
epileptic seizure
epileptical
epileptically
epileptick
epileptics (current term)
epileptiform
epileptiform neuralgia
epileptogeneses
epileptogenesis
epileptogenic
epileptogenic zone
epileptogenous
epileptoid
epileptologist
epileptology
epilimnia
epilimnion
epilimnions

Literary usage of Epileptics

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

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1881)
"epileptics have been generally left by ular medical profession as the ... There is as great ad for a society for the protection of epileptics as there is ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"This question has 50 long been, discussed by every one concerned in the study, treatment and family history of epileptics, without any definite conclusion ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"It does not tell what physic to give epileptics. It is a careful study of the question of what the State and charitable persons owe to the epileptic as an ..."

4. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"Physical Peculiarities of epileptics. § 255. Causes of Epileptic Being an Offender. § 256. Illustrative Cases. § 257. Legal and Other Social Treatment of ..."

5. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1892)
"One is that all epileptics are insane; the other, that very few persons have epilepsy. In point of fact, epilepsy is a wide-spread disorder. ..."

6. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1894)
"One is that all epileptics are insane ; the other, that very few persons have epilepsy. In point of fact, epilepsy is a wide-spread disorder. ..."

7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"The volumes of transactions indicates the status of epileptics in many countries. There arc papers from Mexico, Brazil, England, Germany, Belgium, ..."

8. Index of Economic Material in the Documents of the States of the United by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Economics and Sociology (1912)
"epileptics and epileptic asylum: progress In construction of bldgs., etc. ... Enrollment and daily average in 1895 at Hospital for epileptics; ..."

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