Associations to the word «Phenytoin»

Wiktionary

PHENYTOIN, noun. (medicine) An anticonvulsant drug, 5,5-diphenylimidazolidine-2,4-dione, used in the treatment of epilepsy

Dictionary definition

PHENYTOIN, noun. An anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats