See Also: anticonvulsant(medicine)
Anticonvulsant(health)

airport (iou) and Anticonvulsant (health)


airport (iou)



airport noun. E20.
[from AIR noun1 + PORT noun1.]
An airfield catering for passenger Travel, esp. a large one with customs facilities.
Comb.: airport Art ethnic Art or craft of the type displayed and sold at some airports, viewed dismissively as being copied or mass-produced for the tourist market; airport novel: of the type of light, popular Fiction sold at airports as ideal for in-flight reading.

Anticonvulsant (health)


A medication used to control (prevent) seizures (convulsions) or stop an ongoing series of seizures. There are a large number of anticonvulsant drugs today including, but not limited to: phenobarbital, phenytoin (Dilantin), carbamazepine, ethosuximide (Zarontin), clonazepam (Klonopin), diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan), and midazolam (Versed). Anticonvulsant drugs taken during Pregnancy put the baby at risk of major birth defects -- growth retardation, microcephaly (a small head) and deformities of the face and fingers -- a condition known as anticonvulsant embryopathy.