a. [f. EPILEPT-IC + -OID.] Resembling epilepsy; of the nature of epilepsy.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 825. Mild attacks having an evident relationship to ordinary epilepsy … may be called epileptoid attacks.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 392. Epileptoid seizures, due to tumor or other coarse organic lesion of the brain.
