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epiloia, n. Path.|ɛpɪˈlɔɪə|
[f. epilepsy n. + -oia (as in paranoia, etc. or f. Gr. ἄνοια ‘want of understanding’: see quot. 1979).]
= tuberous sclerosis s.v. tuberous a. 2.
1911E. B. Sherlock Feeble-Minded vi. 242 The term ‘Epiloia’, coined for the purpose, and having, the writer believes, no existing connotation, is..suggested as being more suitable. Ibid. 243 The writer's earlier experience of ‘Epiloia’, led him to regard the condition as one involving grave risk to life, mainly on account of the severity of fits which occur. 1926Brit. Jrnl. Child Dis. XXIII. 178 The term ‘epiloia’..is applied to the syndrome of mental deficiency, epileptic fits, adenoma sebaceum, nodular sclerosis of the cerebral cortex and tumours of the kidney and other organs. 1956Brit. Jrnl. Preventive & Social Med. X. 134 In the past five years a strenuous attempt has been made to ascertain all the cases of epiloia in Northern Ireland. 1979M. R. Gomez Tuberous Sclerosis p. xvii, In the second and third decades of this century the term ‘epiloia’ introduced by Sherlock..was often used to designate the affection of TS [sc. tuberous sclerosis] patients who had ‘epilepsy’ and ‘anoia’ (mindlessness). 1983Stafford-Clark & Smith Psychiatry for Students (ed. 6) xv. 221 Some diseases are inherited as Mendelian dominants, the best known being tuberous sclerosis or epiloia. |