Meaning of EPILEPTIC
| Pronunciation: | | `epu'leptik
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- [n] a person who has epilepsy
- [adj] of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy; "epileptic seizure"
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The first of two volumes, EPILEPTIC details the author`s experiences as a child with his epileptic brother and the ways his family chose to deal with it. Using a hallucinatory visual style, B.--one of the leading lights of the French comics collective L`Association--weaves his own inner fantasy life with the increasingly odd treatment choices of his parents, who were big believers in the alternative medicine boom of the early 1970s. more details ... |
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\Ep`i*lep"tic\, a. [L. epilepticus, Gr. ? : cf. F.
['e]pileptique.]
Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
\Ep`i*lep"tic\, n.
1. One affected with epilepsy.
2. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
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