brain disease vs epilepsy

epilepsy vs brain disease

brain disease and epilepsy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brain disease	Yes	No	No	No
epilepsy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, epilepsy is a hyponym of brain disease; that is, epilepsy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than brain disease:

brain disease: any disorder or disease of the brain
epilepsy: a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions

Other hyponyms of brain disease include apraxia, paralysis agitans, Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinsonism, shaking palsy, cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis, agraphia, anorthography, logagraphia, acataphasia, aphasia, agnosia, CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, Reye's syndrome, Wernicke's encephalopathy.

brain disease (noun)	epilepsy (noun)
any disorder or disease of the brain	a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions

Difference between brain disease and epilepsy

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