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Definition of Epileptogenic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Epileptogenic
1. Causing epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epileptogenic
Literary usage of Epileptogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the International Medical Congress of Philadelphia. 1876 by John Ashhurst (1877)
"... in accordance with the daily experience of physicians that affections of the
spine or of the sciatic should cause epilepsy, with an epileptogenic zone. ..."
2. A Treatise on Common Forms of Functional Nervous Diseases by Leopold Putzel (1880)
"At rare intervals, attacks of unconsciousness develop, although no pressure has
been made upon the epileptogenic zone. During the spontaneous pains, ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system, their prevalence and pathology by Julius Althaus (1877)
"... of the skin of the face and neck termed the ' epileptogenic zone.' This zone
comprises a region defined by a line proceeding from the eye to the ear, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... ATP in the brain Was uniformly and significantly decreased prior to the onset
of the convulsions induced by each of the epileptogenic agents (Fig. 1). ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"This circumstance seems to favor the idea, that in epileptogenic changes the
cells giving origin to the short cerebral tracts ..."
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