anticonvulsant

Noun
  1. A drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) (synset 102721380)
    is a type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
    subtypes:
    • emeside, ethosuximide, zarontin - an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy
    • gabapentin, neurontin - an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles
    • hydantoin - any of a group of anticonvulsant drugs used in treating epilepsy
    • mephenytoin, mesantoin - a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective
    • mebaral, mephobarbital - a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy
    • gemonil, metharbital - anticonvulsant drug (trade name Gemonil) used in the treatment of epilepsy
    • milontin, phensuximide - anticonvulsant (trade name Milontin) used to treat petit mal
    • mysoline, primidone - an anticonvulsant (trade name Mysoline) used to treat grand mal seizures and essential tremor
    • depokene, valproic acid - anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures
    same as: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug

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