apoplexy
pronunciation
How to pronounce apoplexy in British English:
UK [ˈæpəpleksi]
How to pronounce apoplexy in American English:
US [ˈæpəˌplɛksi]
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- Noun:
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
Word Origin
- apoplexy
- apoplexy: [14] The Greek verb apopléssein meant ‘incapacitate by means of a stroke’. It was formed from the prefix apo- ‘away, off’ (here used as an intensive) and the verb pléssein ‘hit’ (source of English plectrum [17] and related to English complain, plangent, plankton, and plague). The derived noun, apoplēxíā, entered English via Latin and Old French.=> complain, plague, plangent, plankton, plectrum
- apoplexy (n.)
- late 14c., "sudden fit of paralysis and dizziness," from Old French apoplexie or directly from Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek apoplexia, from apoplessein "to strike down and incapacitate," from apo- "off" (see apo-), in this case probably an intensive prefix, + plessein "hit" (cognates: plague (n.), also with a root sense of "stricken"). The Latin translation, sideratio, means "disease caused by a constellation."
Example
- 1. The patient was seized with apoplexy yesterday afternoon .
- 2. Leaves , then stems , may suddenly shrivel in the middle of the growing season , the bunches of grapes fall to the ground and the vine suffers apoplexy , or sudden death .
- 3. Conclusion to evaluate the prognosis of hypertensive hemorrhagic apoplexy , the existence of hemorrhage extension to the ventricles or brainstem is an unfavorable parameter .
- 4. He was so furious I thought he would have apoplexy .
- 5. Apoplexy is a rare disease among fowls , I believe , but very common among men .