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apoplexy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apoplexy \Ap"o*plex`y\ ([a^]p"[-o]*pl[e^]ks`[y^]), n. [OE. poplexye, LL. poplexia, apoplexia, fr. Gr. 'apoplhxi`a, fr. 'apoplh`ssein to cripple by a stroke; 'apo` from + plh`ssein to strike: cf. F. apoplexie. See Plague.] (Med.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Note: The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "sudden fit of paralysis and dizziness," from Old French apoplexie or directly from Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek apoplexia, from apoplessein "to strike down and incapacitate," from apo- "off" (see apo-), in this case probably an intensive prefix, + plessein "hit" (cognates: plague (n.), also with a root sense of "stricken"). The Latin translation, sideratio, means "disease caused by a constellation."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context symptom English) Bleeding within internal organs and the accompanying symptoms. 2 (context symptom English) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. 3 (context colloquially English) Great anger and excitement.
WordNet
n. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain [syn: stroke, cerebrovascular accident, CVA]
Wikipedia
Apoplexy is bleeding within internal organs and the accompanying symptoms. For example, ovarian apoplexy is bleeding in the ovaries. The term formerly referred to what is now called a stroke; nowadays, health care professionals typically specify the type of apoplexy, such as cerebral, ovarian and pituitary apoplexy.
Informally, apoplexy is associated with being furious, especially as "apoplectic".
Usage examples of "apoplexy".
Lafontaine, Schlegel, and Hartman all assure us that the section of the affected masses before this time has been known to be followed by amaurosis, convulsions, apoplexy, epilepsy, and even death.
It was Guzman Bento who died, not by the knife thrust of a conspirator, but from a stroke of apoplexy, and Dr.
Ordering Elizabeth to dress for visiting, she had summoned the landau, taken some care over her toilette, and arrived at The Forks in time for afternoon tea and, she hoped, some comforting apoplexy.
I think, hauled to my front door in a tipcart by a fourteen-year-old boy in an apoplexy of tears.
Peter having apoplexy and two Maxwells storming the Pearly Gates at once.
For instance, there is apoplexy -- that lightning-stroke which strikes but does not destroy you, and yet which brings everything to an end.
You see this is a fit of apoplexy, and he might be saved if he could but be bled!
I backed the big heavy body and the thick red face for an apoplexy, yet they looked more like ebullient good health.
Doc Harvey would have had apoplexy if he saw what was on that table, but it was a great meal and I consumed it with gusto.
He said the lay-sister died of a cerebral lethargy, which superinduced an attack of apoplexy.
So he died of an apoplexy during the festivities, and his son brought him back to the Chateau d'Azan, and buried him there with due honor, and mourned for him as was fitting.
Mulledwiney and Otherwise will play the engine upon Bleareyed, who is suffering from heat apoplexy and djim-djams.
The Governor could take all the necessary official action, in circularising the squadron and informing the Government - just as if yellow fever or apoplexy had taken off the Commander-in-Chief.
The Governor could take all the necessary official action, in circularising the squadron and informing the Government — just as if yellow fever or apoplexy had taken off the Commander-in-Chief.
God has seen fit to subject chickens to the most loathsome diseases in the world—pip, gapes, costiveness, diarrhea, distemper, asthma, catarrh, apoplexy, cholera, lime legs, canker and many others.