APOPLEXY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apoplexy mean? 

• APOPLEXY (noun)
  The noun APOPLEXY has 1 sense:

1. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

  Familiarity information: APOPLEXY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOPLEXY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

apoplexy; cerebrovascular accident; CVA; stroke

Hypernyms ("apoplexy" is a kind of...):

attack (a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition)

Meronyms (parts of "apoplexy"):

cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apoplexy"):

ischaemic stroke; ischemic stroke (the most common kind of stroke; caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain (as from a clot blocking a blood vessel))

haemorrhagic stroke; hemorrhagic stroke (stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain)

Derivation:

apoplectic (pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include pituitary gland hypoplasia and apoplexy.

(Non-Neoplastic Pituitary Gland Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The medical evidence showed conclusively that death was due to apoplexy.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include pituitary gland hypoplasia and apoplexy.

(Pituitary Gland Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

This may result from surgical or radiation ablation, non-secretory pituitary neoplasms, metastatic tumors, infarction, pituitary apoplexy, infiltrative or granulomatous processes, and other conditions.

(Hypopituitarism, NCI Thesaurus)

Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her £20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Apoplexy. Nervous shock, He’s been on the verge all day. I doubt if we shall find him alive.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)