'Falling sickness' definitions:
Definition of 'Falling sickness'
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- Falling \Fall"ing\, a. & n. from Fall, v. i. [1913 Webster]
- Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, {To fall off}, etc., under Fall, v. i.
- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.
- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak.
- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.
- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite.
- Falling tide, the ebb tide.
- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'falling sickness'
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- abdominal epilepsy,
- access,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- affect epilepsy,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- blockage,
- brain disease,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- cephalalgia,
- cerebral palsy,
- chorea,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- convulsion,
- cortical epilepsy,
- cramp,
- cursive epilepsy,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- eclampsia,
- emotional disorder,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- epitasis,
- fit,
- focal epilepsy,
- frenzy,
- glossopharyngeal neuralgia,
- grand mal,
- grip,
- haute mal,
- headache,
- herpes zoster,
- hysterical epilepsy,
- ictus,
- ischialgia,
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- larval epilepsy,
- laryngeal epilepsy,
- laryngospasm,
- latent epilepsy,
- lockjaw,
- matutinal epilepsy,
- menstrual epilepsy,
- migraine,
- MS,
- multiple sclerosis,
- musicogenic epilepsy,
- myoclonous epilepsy,
- nervous disorder,
- neuralgia,
- neuritis,
- neuropathy,
- nocturnal epilepsy,
- occlusion,
- organic psychosis,
- orgasm,
- palsy,
- paroxysm,
- petit mal,
- physiologic epilepsy,
- polyneuritis,
- pressure neuropathy,
- priapism,
- psychic epilepsy,
- psychomotor epilepsy,
- radiculitis,
- reflex epilepsy,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- rotatoria,
- sciatic neuritis,
- sciatica,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- sexual climax,
- shaking palsy,
- shingles,
- spasm,
- spastic paralysis,
- stoppage,
- stroke,
- tardy epilepsy,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- the jerks,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tic douloureux,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- torsion spasm,
- toxic psychosis,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trismus,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- visitation