Synonyms for epilepsy
ˈɛp əˌlɛp siepilep·sy

Princeton's WordNet

1. epilepsynoun

   a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions

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1. • Brain Disorder

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1. epilepsynoun

   Synonyms:
   falling sickness

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1. List of paraphrases for "epilepsy":

   epileptic, seizure

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1. epilepsy

   Synonyms:
   Mal comitial

2. epilepsy

   Synonyms:
   Morbus caducus

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1. Alan Faneca:

   Instinctively I knew I was not going to allow anything to prevent me from fulfilling my dream, epilepsy is part of me, but that does not define me. We are in charge of our destiny. Woodson, who is from Ohio — though Alan Faneca went to Michigan — began by singing praise for Alan Faneca mother, who presented Alan Faneca.

2. Phillip Gander:

   It is such a rarity that a person requiring invasive electrode monitoring for epilepsy also has tinnitus that we aim to study every such person if they are willing.

3. Mike Barnes:

   This system has a big role to play in lots of bodily functions, including epilepsy, what the plants are doing is interacting with our own system, supplementing it, putting it right.

4. Billy Caldwell:

   Billy needs his confiscated anti-epilepsy medication immediately.

5. David Nutt:

   It would also help scientists to develop new and more effective cannabinoid-based medicines for a range of other conditions. there will be many other people in the UK with severe epilepsy who are likely to benefit from medical cannabis and provision must be made to stop them suffering brain damage and death from cannabis-treatable seizures.