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apoplexy

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apoplexy: see stroke stroke, destruction of brain tissue as a result of intracerebral hemorrhage or infarction caused by thrombosis (clotting) or embolus (obstruction in a blood vessel caused by clotted blood or other foreign matter circulating in the bloodstream); formerly called
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apoplexy
sudden loss of consciousness, often followed by paralysis, caused by rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel in the brain
apoplexy [′ap·ə‚plek·sē]
(medicine)
A symptom complex caused by an acute vascular lesion of the brain and characterized by unconsciousness with various degrees of paralysis and sensory impairment.
Sudden, severe hemorrhage into any organ.
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Nineteen months afterward his widow died of apoplexy at a boarding-house in Cheltenham.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
She had indeed given her master sufficient time to dress himself; for out of respect to him, and regard to decency, she had spent many minutes in adjusting her hair at the looking-glass, notwithstanding all the hurry in which she had been summoned by the servant, and though her master, for aught she knew, lay expiring in an apoplexy, or in some other fit.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
He died one morning of apoplexy, as he was going to open his outer door.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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