Crossword-Solution: EPILEPSY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epilepsy | n. | The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “EPILEPSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| disorder of the nervous system causing loss of consciousness and sometimes convulsions | 1 answer |
| disorder of the central nervous system characterised by convulsions | 1 answer |
| The "sacred disease," to ancient Greeks | 1 answer |
| Seizure cause | 1 answer |
| STATUS epilepticus | 1 answer |
| Neurontin treats it | 1 answer |
| Disorder resulting in seizures | 1 answer |
| Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered | 1 answer |
| Disorder characterized by seizures | 1 answer |
| Convulsive condition | 1 answer |
| Cause of seizures | 1 answer |
| falling sickness | 2 answers |
| Neurological disorder | 2 answers |
| CONVULSIONS, condition causing | 3 answers |
| CAUSING convulsions | 3 answers |
| CRAMP ring, affliction eased by wearing a | 3 answers |
| disorder of the central nervous system | 4 answers |
| A DISORDER OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CHARACTERIZED BY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONVULSIONS | 11 answers |
| convulsion | 17 answers |
| Spasm | 23 answers |
| seizure | 58 answers |
| Frenzy | 75 answers |
| Fit | 100 answers |
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Sentences with EPILEPSY (5)
Who can count the number of them? She was in exile two years with the hope of healing her malady—epilepsy.
Where, in epilepsy, I should have given thirty-grain doses of bromide or chloral every four hours, he would give two drachms every three.
Perhaps the best-known development of a theological view in the Protestant Church was that mainly evolved in England out of a French germ of theological thought--a belief in the efficacy of the royal touch in sundry diseases, especially epilepsy and scrofula, the latter being consequently known as the king's evil.
The result, then, would have to be ascribed either to a merely physiological nerve storm, a “discharging lesion” like that of epilepsy; or, in case it were useful and rational, as in the two latter cases named, to some more mystical or theological hypothesis.
Veslingius tells of a woman dying of epilepsy on June 6, 1630, from whose body, two days later, issued a child.
Quotes with EPILEPSY (3)
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
There are few chemicals that we as a people are exposed to that have as many far reaching physiological affects on living beings as Monosodium Glutamate does. MSG directly causes obesity, diabetes, triggers epilepsy, destroys eye tissues, is genotoxic in many organs and is the probable cause of ADHD and Autism. Considering that MSG’s only reported role in food is that of ‘flavour enhancer’ is that use worth the risk of the myriad of physical ailments associated with it? Does …
[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.
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Appears in: Chronicle, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1995–2022).