apoplexy

[ ap-uh-plek-see ]
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noun
  1. a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel.

  1. a hemorrhage into an organ cavity or tissue.

  2. a state of extreme anger.

Origin of apoplexy

1
1350–1400; Middle English apoplexie<Late Latin <Greek, equivalent to apóplēkt(os) (see apoplectic) + -ia-y3

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How to use apoplexy in a sentence

  • After several attacks of apoplexy, he was conveyed to the military hospital, where in a brief period he died.

  • And the Nabob loosened his cravat about his neck, swollen like an apoplexy by his emotion and the heat of the room.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet

British Dictionary definitions for apoplexy

apoplexy

/ (ˈæpəˌplɛksɪ) /


noun
  1. sudden loss of consciousness, often followed by paralysis, caused by rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel in the brain

Origin of apoplexy

1
C14: from Old French apoplexie, from Late Latin apoplēxia, from Greek: from apoplēssein to cripple by a stroke, from plēssein to strike

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