I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
epileptic fits
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people who suffer from epileptic fits
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fit
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We are able to resume ourselves after sleep, after an alcoholic stupor, after an epileptic fit , after prolonged coma.
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When you pulled her close, she shook all over as if she were having an epileptic fit .
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Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits .
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Jean's son Darren died from a major epileptic fit three months after this interview.
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Mr Ballantyne said that he ran out of a drug used to control Mr Stockton's epileptic fits .
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He said he had never known a child die of an epileptic fit .
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Sadly, Rose suffered a major setback one day, when she had a grand mal epileptic fit .
seizure
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Ten patients had hypoxaemic events induced by epileptic seizures .
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Their adopted daughter, Melinda, died during an epileptic seizure .
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Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.
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There may be a gradual or prolonged build-up of the episode rather than the abrupt onset typical of an epileptic seizure .
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In six epileptic seizures were difficult to control; in four they stopped after treatment with carbamazepine.
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Ahmad once represented a dry cleaning branch manager who had an epileptic seizure on the job.
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It may indeed have been caused by sunstroke or by an epileptic seizure .
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In four of these hypoxaemia induced by epileptic seizure was recorded during subsequent events in hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an epileptic seizure
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certainly, the seizures of many epileptic patients will be exacerbated during times of emotional tensions.
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Jean's son Darren died from a major epileptic fit three months after this interview.
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Ten patients had hypoxaemic events induced by epileptic seizures.
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Their adopted daughter, Melinda, died during an epileptic seizure.
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Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.
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We are able to resume ourselves after sleep, after an alcoholic stupor, after an epileptic fit, after prolonged coma.
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When epileptic areas are close to language areas-and often they are-it becomes very important to map language abilities before removing anything.
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When you pulled her close, she shook all over as if she were having an epileptic fit.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An epileptic would not have made it through the door.
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But Jim knew as he carried his daughter through the crowd that now circled them, that Berta was an epileptic .
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I am anything but an epileptic .
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Mr Sefelt is an epileptic , Mr McMurphy.
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The controlled epileptic should have no problem with employment.