postictal

1. 1.

   pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion

   “postictal drowsiness”

Questions about postictal

What does postictal mean?

postictal means "pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion".

How many syllables are in postictal?

postictal has 3 syllables and divides as po-stic-tal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is postictal a common word?

postictal 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.