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Apoplexy
Apoplexy meaning
Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke. | Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke. | Gross hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ.
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Example sentences (7)
And when the park was finally opened in December, 1914, local MLA Mr F.A. Badgery officially opening and naming it "Corbett Gardens," it sent some of Ada's critics into near-apoplexy.
Bartholomeus (Ptolemy) of Lucca says, subito factus apoplecticus, sine loquela moritur ('suddenly stricken with apoplexy, he died without speaking').
He died of apoplexy about 20 January 1664.sfn Character assessment As a religious writer Ambrose has a vividness and freshness of imagination possessed by scarcely any of the Puritan Nonconformists.
He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed, and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.
Marcello Malpighi died of apoplexy (an old-fashioned term for a stroke or stroke-like symptoms) in Rome on 29 September 1694, at the age of 66. In accordance with his wishes, an autopsy was performed.
Randolph suffered a fit of apoplexy and died in Philadelphia on October 22, eventually succeeded by John Hancock of Massachusetts as President of the Continental Congress.
This condition continued well into 1848, more or less unchanged until a serious bout of apoplexy occurred on 1 April followed by further decline and the inability to take in food.