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APOPLEXY
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I. (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
Synonyms:
apoplexy; cerebrovascular accident; CVA; stroke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
