A person who has epilepsy.
Used in a Sentence
epileptic
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for epileptic.
Editorial note
At least in times past this has been frequently true with conventional anti-convulsives, drugs that prevent epileptic attacks.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A person who has epilepsy.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of epileptic gathered in one view.
Of or relating to epilepsy.
Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for epileptic.
noun
A person who has epilepsy.
adjective
Of or relating to epilepsy.
adjective
Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).
noun
(archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
Example sentences
At least in times past this has been frequently true with conventional anti-convulsives, drugs that prevent epileptic attacks.
With non-moving parts, no noise, and won't sent people into epileptic shock around sunrise/sunset, it looks like a winner.
She was very excited, since tech like this could potentially be used to react to epileptic seizures for example.
A photosensitive epileptic will know to look away if they see their kind of triggering flash.
If they saw someone having a cardiac arrest or epileptic fit they'd call an ambulance.
Are quite tired of highly intrusive, epileptic-seizure-inducing flash ads (some of them with audio).
At which point, nothing is safe - I heard of one epileptic who had seizures due to orange circles.
It's like a fire alarm with a flashing light that triggers epileptic seizures.
That's true, but the conclusion you draw has a logical defect -- an epileptic seizure is not a mental process, it's a physical one.
Valproate is used as an anti-epileptic and as a mood stabiliser.
Maybe citing the following will be useful: Griefers have empirically demonstrated that websites can affect mental processes by using flashing images to trigger epileptic seizures.
Also, your comment about epileptic cascades made me think...
Quote examples
I have had friends explain to me how they chose to "go on the sick", one after a epileptic fit.
If “people are to cities as neurons are to brains,” and based on the power-law scaling he mentions, he logically ought to end with the fear that all large cities will be eventually destroyed by massive epileptic cascades.
As an epileptic I doubt that this kind of device "can help them (the epileptics) adjust their medications." My neurologist adjust my medications every 6 months after studying my blood analyses, standard EEG and sleep EEG.
And human stupidity ended millions of North Vietnamese lives and about 55000 North American ones and left many more on drugs, dealing with the effects of Agent Orange epileptic shock, while a young Richard "Dick" Cheney learned none of the lessons of that era, dodged five drafts and started wars killing hundreds of thousands more decades later.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use epileptic in a sentence?
At least in times past this has been frequently true with conventional anti-convulsives, drugs that prevent epileptic attacks.
What does epileptic mean?
A person who has epilepsy.
What part of speech is epileptic?
epileptic is commonly used as noun, adjective.