3 March 2016

apoplexy

[ap-uh-plek-see]

noun, Pathology.

1. stroke1(def 6).
2. a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel.
3. a hemorrhage into an organ cavity or tissue.

Origin of apoplexy

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

Related forms

apoplectiform [ap-uh-plek-tuh-fawrm] (Show IPA), apoplectoid, adjective

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Examples from the Web for apoplexy

Historical Examples

On the day before his death from apoplexy he imagined to himself despatches in which his son’s name figured brilliantly.
Here and Hereafter
Barry Pain

He adds that the surgeon described death as due to apoplexy.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3)
John Morley

Epilepsy and apoplexy were understood as spasms inside the head.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
S. A. Reilly

They will find it apoplexy, or some such thing, I have no doubt of it.
The Hour and the Man
Harriet Martineau

I have no wish that he should die of an attack of apoplexy —that would be very embarrassing both to me and to my Government.
The Tragedy of St. Helena
Walter Runciman

apoplexy may be termed an universal palsy, or a permanent sleep.
Zoonomia, Vol. II
Erasmus Darwin

Two years later a stroke of apoplexy brought to a sudden end the convert’s life.
The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Cur of Ars
Anonymous

It’s apoplexy,—I told you so,—don’t you see how red he is in the face?
Elsie Venner
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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On this day

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3 March 1931 – the Star Spangled Banner becomes the United States national anthem. The song was written by Francis Scott Key on 14 September 1814.

3 March 1991 – In Los Angeles, three white police officers are filmed viciously bashing African American, Rodney King. The video of police brutality is shown publicly. Four police officers are charged in relation to the bashing, but are later acquitted. News of the acquittal led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots.