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n. Any of various neurological disorders characterized by sudden recurring attacks of motor, sensory, or psychic malfunction with or without loss of consciousness or convulsive seizures.

n. A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

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.

n. A disease of the brain characterized by recurrent attacks of loss of consciousness with severe muscular spasm (major attack), or

n. loss of consciousness attended with little or no muscular disturbance, or, rarely, slight muscular spasm without loss of consciousness (minor attack).

n. a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions

"The term epilepsy (pronounced as eh-puh-lep-see) originates from a Greek word 'epilepsia' meaning 'falling sickness' It is an illness that affects the brain, causing repeated seizures or 'fits' in the patient which make them to fall."

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