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What does epilepsy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epilepsy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
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Doctors dispelled the depression as an extensive form of epilepsy, petit mal.
A special case of neural sensitization is limbic kindling, which is an animal model for temporal lobe epilepsy.
The most common form of epilepsy involves seizures that begin in the brain's temporal lobes.
Dostoevsky suffered seizures all his life and his writing records the intensity of epilepsy.
In some illnesses, for example migraine or epilepsy, the diagnosis may be evident from the history alone.
Most doctors will start chronic treatment of epilepsy if two or more attacks occur in a short interval.

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