apoplexy
IPA: ˈæpʌpɫɛksi
noun
- (medicine, dated) Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
- (medicine) Gross hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ.
- (informal) A state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger.
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Examples of "apoplexy" in Sentences
- The cause of death was apoplexy.
- The death was attributed to apoplexy.
- His death was the result of apoplexy.
- Carlo Gualterio died in 1673 of an apoplexy in Rome.
- Ferguson died in Brooklyn of apoplexy at the age of 49.
- Guilleragues died of apoplexy in Constantinople in 1684.
- He died in New York City of apoplexy in 1885 at the age of 55.
- In 1814 he took on command of the Meuse before dying of an apoplexy.
- He died from apoplexy in the sanatorium on July 14, 1865 at the age of 61.
- Davies was found in his home, dead of apoplexy on the morning of December 8th.
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