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apoplexy

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Amiss wondered if apoplexy would ensue, but all that followed was silence. ▪ Brian Dennehy, reprising his Broadway role, tackles Willy with bluster and a huge, bellowing presence bordering on apoplexy . ▪ It is clearly a massive ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in 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 ...

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.