Definition of "epileptic" []

• Affected with epilepsy. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or associated with epilepsy. (adjective)
• One who has epilepsy. (noun)

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• "Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig, the boys of Flight of the Conchords managed to mispronounce the word epileptic in about a handful of different ways, give a number of dogs seizures with their strobe lights, and wrestle each other to the ground in a catfight-like manner."
• "Certain epileptic patients, known as split-brain patients, have had the corpus callosum surgically severed in order to control their seizures (although I believe there are better treatments now, so that the operation is no longer practiced). ["
• "Lyrica is an anti-epileptic, which is probably why it helps."