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Noun
/ˈapəˌpleksē/,
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apoplexies, plural;
  1. Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke

  2. Incapacity or speechlessness caused by extreme anger
    • - this drives the social engineers of government into apoplexy
  1. stroke: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
  2. Apoplexy is a medical term, which can be used to mean 'bleeding' in a cerebrovascular accident. However, without further specification it is rather outdated, and is today rather used for specific conditions, such as pituitary apoplexy. ...
  3. Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain
  4. a historical, but obsolete term for a cerebral stroke, most often intracerebral hemorrhage, that was applied to any condition that involved disorientation and/or paralysis.
  5. a crippling stroke, sometimes fatal, usually associated with sudden loss of muscle control or paralysis.
  6. sudden neurologic impairment due to a cerebrovascular disorder, e.g., cerebral stroke
  7. (adj. apoplectic) – a fit of extreme anger; rage [also the name of a medical condition]
  8. [Late Middle English, through Late Latin from Greek apoplexia] 1 A sudden loss of sensation and movement due to a disturbance of blood supply to the brain; a stroke. 2 With specifying word: a haemorrhage or failure of blood supply in another organ or part. Now rare or obsolete.
  9. The result of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident (CVA)).
  10. Apoplexy is the condition of having suffered a stroke; intracranial hemorrhage.
  11. A stroke. Oftentimes fatal, sometimes resulting in recovery with partial paralysis.
  12. is a sudden and often fatal fit resulting from blood vessels bursting in the brain. The 19th century character Madame Bovary became a widow because of it. Today, we generally call it "a stroke," but apoplexy sounds way better.
  13. sudden impairment of neurological function, especially that resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke.
  14. Paralysis due to stroke
  15. sudden bleeding inside an organ.