ICTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ictus mean? 

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

1. a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ictus; raptus; seizure

Context example:

he suffered an epileptic seizure

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

attack (a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition)

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

convulsion (violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles)

focal seizure (transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity)

raptus hemorrhagicus (seizure caused by a sudden profuse hemorrhage)

absence; absence seizure (the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy)

Derivation:

ictal (of or relating to a seizure or convulsion)