posttraumatic epilepsy

1. 1.

   a convulsive epileptic state caused by a head injury

   Synonymstraumatic epilepsy

   Broaderepilepsy

Questions about posttraumatic epilepsy

What does posttraumatic epilepsy mean?

posttraumatic epilepsy means "a convulsive epileptic state caused by a head injury".

What is another word for posttraumatic epilepsy?

Close synonyms include traumatic epilepsy. 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 posttraumatic epilepsy a common word?

posttraumatic epilepsy 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.