Epilepsy vs Epigenetic - What's the difference?
epilepsy | epigenetic |
(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(genetics, mineralogy) Of or relating to epigenesis.
(genetics) Of or relating to epigenetics.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1977
, month = December
, title = A Systems-Analytical Approach to Macro-Evolutionary Phenomena
, author = Rupert Riedl
, journal = The Quarterly Review of Biology
, volume = 52
, issue = 4
, jstor = 2823251
, page = 352
, passage = The old and optimistic “one gene — one character” concept has long been invalidated by phenomena such as pleiotropy and polygeny, and for a generation now we have thought of genomic activity as a system of complex epigenetic' interactions — an ' epigenetic landscape.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, date = 2010-11-06
, title = Sins of the Fathers
, magazine =
, passage = Every cell in the body contains the same DNA but epigenetic' settings on cells in the bone and blood, for example, mean the tissues do very different jobs. The ' epigenetic consequences of a huge range of environmental factors are under investigation, from exposure to drugs, chemicals and hormones, to the impact of poor maternal care in infancy, and the likelihood that they are as hereditable as DNA.
}}
As a noun epilepsy
is (pathology) a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.As an adjective epigenetic is
(genetics|mineralogy) of or relating to epigenesis.epilepsy
English
(wikipedia epilepsy)Noun
- 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.