anticonvulsant drug
- noun
- /ˌæntɪkənˈvʌlsənt drʌg/
- Specialized
:
fármaco anticonvulsivo
- Doctors often prescribe anticonvulsant drugs to patients with epilepsy to prevent seizures.
Examples
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After suffering several seizures, he started taking an anticonvulsant drug to manage his condition.
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Many patients rely on anticonvulsant drugs to manage their epilepsy.
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After switching to a new anticonvulsant drug, his seizures became less frequent.
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Research is ongoing to develop safer anticonvulsant drugs with fewer side effects.
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The doctor prescribed an anticonvulsant drug to help control her epilepsy.
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The doctor prescribed an anticonvulsant drug for her seizures.
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She has seen a significant improvement since starting the anticonvulsant drug for her epilepsy.
Synonyms
3
7.9
A medicine that treats and prevents seizures in epilepsy
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5.5
A drug that prevents or reduces seizures
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4.8
A medicine that prevents some seizures and treats mood problems and very bad headaches
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4.1
A medicine that prevents or controls seizures in people with epilepsy
A drug that prevents or controls seizures in people with epilepsy
A medicine used to treat epilepsy and reduce seizures
A medicine that helps prevent seizures in people with epilepsy
A medicine that treats seizures and shaking of the hands
A medicine that helps control seizures in people with epilepsy
A medicine that treats short seizures when a person stares and does not respond
A risky medicine used to treat seizures when other medicines do not work
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'anticonvulsant' means preventing or controlling convulsions and 'drug' means a medicine, so the combined meaning is simply 'a medicine that prevents or treats convulsions'. This modifier+noun pattern is a regular, transparent formation in English (and parallels exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would be able to understand it.
Etymology
Anticonvulsant drug literally describes a medicine that fights sudden body shaking: anti- means 'against' and convulsant refers to convulsions or seizures. So it means a drug 'to stop or prevent seizures'.