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Convalescent vs Epilepsy - What's the difference?

convalescent | epilepsy |

As nouns the difference between convalescent and epilepsy

is that convalescent is a person recovering from illness while epilepsy is (pathology) a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

As an adjective convalescent

is recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.

convalescent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.
  • *
  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
  • Of convalescence or convalescents (see below).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person recovering from illness.
  • I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent .

    epilepsy

    Noun

  • (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
  • Epilepsies , or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

    Derived terms

    * epileptic * epileptiform

    See also

    * falling sickness * grand mal * petit mal