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Anticonvulsant vs Primidone - What's the difference?

anticonvulsant | primidone |

As nouns the difference between anticonvulsant and primidone

is that anticonvulsant is an agent that prevents, stops, or lessens convulsions while primidone is an anticonvulsant of the pyrimidinedione class whose active metabolites, phenobarbital and phenylethylmalonamide, are also anticonvulsants.

As an adjective anticonvulsant

is acting as an anticonvulsant.

anticonvulsant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pharmacology) An agent that prevents, stops, or lessens convulsions.
    • Hyponyms
    * See also

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (pharmacology) Acting as an anticonvulsant.

    • primidone

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia primidone)
  • An anticonvulsant of the pyrimidinedione class whose active metabolites, phenobarbital and phenylethylmalonamide, are also anticonvulsants.