apoplexy

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ap·o·plexy | \ ˈa-pə-ˌplek-sē

Definition of apoplexy

1 medical

a dated : stroke sense 5 The medical evidence showed conclusively that death was due to apoplexy.— Arthur Conan Doyle

b : gross hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ pituitary apoplexy

2 : a state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger … he had irritated his superior into apoplexy …— Kevin Patterson … this latest attraction has sparked apoplexy among some environmentalists.— Jayne Clark

Examples of apoplexy in a Sentence

Her speech caused apoplexy among the audience members.

Recent Examples on the Web Never felt a single symptom, unless apoplexy is one of them. — James Lileks, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Currently, the top cause of death globally is ischemic heart disease and the second is cerebral apoplexy (stroke). — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2021 Giants fans in a state of apoplexy should know two things, one comforting, one not so much. — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2019 The mass cultural apoplexy in 2013 around the introduction of the cronut by Dominique Answel, a baker from New York, meanwhile, pretty much speaks for itself. — Tim Martin, 1843, 13 June 2019 In fact, many policies that Sweden has today would send Bernie into apoplexy. — WSJ, 25 Apr. 2019 Bendig, 84, died of complications from a pituitary apoplexy on June 3 at the Avantara Park Ridge nursing and rehabilitation center in Park Ridge, said his son Ray. — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018 Slowly, for all the sound and fury of Arsenal Fan TV and the apoplexy on social media, expectations have lowered. — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 31 Jan. 2018 Strange finished second, which sent mainstream Republicans like McConnell into apoplexy. — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2017 See More

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apoplexy

noun

ap·o·plexy | \ ˈap-ə-ˌplek-sē

plural apoplexies

Medical Definition of apoplexy

1 dated : stroke In apoplexy or "stroke" … an artery in the brain either ruptures and bleeds or is blocked.— Morris Fishbein, The Modern Family Health Guide

2 : copious hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ abdominal apoplexy adrenal apoplexy