epilepsy; epileptic fit
Medical term for epilepsy or an epileptic seizure. Commonly used in both clinical and everyday contexts.
He suddenly had an epileptic seizure and collapsed.
He had an epileptic seizure.
Medication is used to treat epilepsy.
Epileptic seizures can often be controlled with medication.
She has suffered from epilepsy since she was a child.
転換 (てんかん) means 'conversion, switch' and is a completely different word from 癲癇 (てんかん), the medical term for epilepsy, despite sharing the same pronunciation.
Usually written in kana; the kanji form 癲癇 is rare and may not display correctly on all devices.
Kanji form; rarely used in modern writing and may be difficult to read or display.
The kanji 癲 (ten) means 'insanity' or 'convulsions', and 癇 (kan) means 'irritability' or 'nervousness'. Together they form a medical term for epilepsy. The word is a Sino-Japanese compound (kango).