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Narcolepsy vs Epilepsy - What's the difference?

narcolepsy | epilepsy |

In pathology terms the difference between narcolepsy and epilepsy

is that narcolepsy is a disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations while epilepsy is a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

narcolepsy

Noun

  • (pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations
  • Excitement-induced narcolepsy caused him to sleep through the most important events of his life.

    Derived terms

    * narcoleptic

    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