epilepsyn.

/ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s epilepsie. See also epilency n.

Etymology: < Old French epilepsie, < Latin epilēpsia, < Greek ἐπιληψία, < ἐπιλαμβάνειν to take hold of, < ἐπί upon + λαμβάνειν to take.

Pathology.

A disease of the nervous system, characterized (in its severer forms) by violent paroxysms, in which the patient falls to the ground in a state of unconsciousness, with general spasm of the muscles, and foaming at the mouth. The English name is falling sickness (now little used).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy

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St John's disease1574

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St John's evil1605

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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 35 The same..is good for the Epilepsie, or falling sicknesse.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 48 My Lord is falne into an Epilepsy, This is his second fit.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1098 By their smell the Epilepsie that ariseth from the strangling of the Mother, is discussed.

1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 20 The epilepsy was by the Romans..called Morbus Sacer.

1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) xxxiv. 232 His features worked like one in a fit of epilepsy.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) vi. 32 Some of his adversaries attributed them to epilepsy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	epilepsy
释义	epilepsyn. /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/ Forms: Also 1500s–1700s epilepsie. See also epilency n. Etymology: < Old French epilepsie, < Latin epilēpsia, < Greek ἐπιληψία, < ἐπιλαμβάνειν to take hold of, < ἐπί upon + λαμβάνειν to take. Pathology. A disease of the nervous system, characterized (in its severer forms) by violent paroxysms, in which the patient falls to the ground in a state of unconsciousness, with general spasm of the muscles, and foaming at the mouth. The English name is falling sickness (now little used). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy brothfallc1175 foul evila1398 the falling evila1400 falling gouta1400 land-evilc1440 falling sickness1485 epilency1495 falling-ill1561 comitial fit1562 St John's disease1574 epilepsy1578 falling disease1580 St John's evil1605 epilepse1804 sacred malady- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 35 The same..is good for the Epilepsie, or falling sicknesse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 48 My Lord is falne into an Epilepsy, This is his second fit. View more context for this quotation 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1098 By their smell the Epilepsie that ariseth from the strangling of the Mother, is discussed. 1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 20 The epilepsy was by the Romans..called Morbus Sacer. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) xxxiv. 232 His features worked like one in a fit of epilepsy. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) vi. 32 Some of his adversaries attributed them to epilepsy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1578
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