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epileptoid (medicine)


epileptoid
<medicine> Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.

Origin: Gr.

Source: Websters Dictionary


proscribe (medicine)


proscribe


1. To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each Other's adherents. "Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . Was banished the realm, and proscribed." (Spenser)

2. To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. "The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice." (Waterland)

Origin: L. Proscribere, proscriptum, to write before, to publish, proscribe; pro before + scribere to write. See Scribe. The sense of this word originated in the Roman practice of Writing the names of persons doomed to death, and posting the list in public.

Source: Websters Dictionary