antiepileptic drug

1. 1.

   a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)

   Synonymsanticonvulsantanticonvulsant drugantiepileptic

   Broadermedicine

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Questions about antiepileptic drug

What does antiepileptic drug mean?

antiepileptic drug means "a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)".

What is another word for antiepileptic drug?

Close synonyms include anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antiepileptic drug a common word?

antiepileptic drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.