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- noun Plural form of
epilepsy .
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Examples
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[37] The ancients attributed all sudden terrors, and sudden sicknesses, such as epilepsies, for which no cause appeared, to Pan, or to some other
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Intractable epilepsies and depression may radically benefit the accent here is on intractable, people who just get pissed off now and again need not apply.
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Progress trammelled is sickly, and is subject to these tragic epilepsies.
Les Miserables 2008
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In a short time the fathers of the church ascribed to the devil all the religions which divided the earth, all pretended prodigies, all great events, comets, plagues, epilepsies, scrofula, etc. The poor devil, who was supposed to be roasting in a hole under the earth, was perfectly astonished to find himself master of the world.
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For most epilepsies, phenobarbital and phenytoin are often the best drugs.
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In about 1/3 of epilepsies, no family history or history of brain damage can be found.
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Zur Kenntnis der traumatischen Epilepsie (On our knowledge of traumatic epilepsies) and Über einige Bedingungen zur
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The hoof of the _Moose-deer_ was formerly in great repute for curing epilepsies, but has now justly fallen into neglect.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various
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Suttee, the impudent ravishments of Vengata Ramana, -- all the fancies and frenzies, all the delusions and passions and moral epilepsies that go to make up a Meerut or a Cawnpore.
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One finds lesions in general paralysis which is ranged with insanity and we find some also in epilepsies which are considered as neuroses; one no more finds lesions in melancholic conditions than in conditions of obsessions.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various
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