Usually means: Epilepsy characterized by recurrent seizures.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word falling sickness:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. falling sickness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. falling sickness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. falling sickness: Wordnik
  4. falling-sickness, falling sickness: Wiktionary
  5. falling sickness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. falling sickness: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. falling sickness: Dictionary.com
  8. Falling sickness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. falling-sickness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Falling Sickness: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. falling sickness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. falling sickness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. falling sickness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Falling sickness, Falling sickness, Falling sickness: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. falling sickness: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (falling sickness)

▸ noun:  (archaic) Epilepsy.

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falling-sickness, epilepsy, water sickness, sleepy distemper, bleeding sickness, hysteroepilepsy, eppy, catalepsis, sleeping sickness, spondylizema, more...



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