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subepileptic

subepileptic adjective: approaching the condition of epilepsy.

Adjective

subepileptic (not comparable)

  1. Approaching the condition of epilepsy.
    • And then there was young Tom's wife Mag née Sharpe aged forty-one years, greatly handicapped in her house and outdoor activity by subepileptic seizures of monthly incidence, during which she rolled foaming on the floor, or on the yard, or on the vegetable patch, or on the river's brim, and seldom...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Origin of subepileptic

From sub- + epileptic.

Questions about subepileptic

What does subepileptic mean?
Subepileptic means approaching the condition of epilepsy.
What part of speech is subepileptic?
Subepileptic is an adjective.

Words near subepileptic in the dictionary

  1. subepidermal
  2. subepidermally
  3. subepidermis
  4. subepididymal
  5. subepiglottic
  6. subepileptic
  7. subepineural
  8. subepineurium
  9. subepineuriums
  10. subepiphyseal
  11. subepithelia

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