apoplexy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=o=plex=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

apoplexy, n. [OE. poplexye, LL. poplexia, apoplexia, fr. Gr. 'apoplhxi`a, fr. 'apoplh`ssein to cripple by a stroke; 'apo` from + plh`ssein to strike: cf. F. apoplexie. See Plague.].

 Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.  [1913 Webster]
" The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

apoplexy, n. a sudden loss of consciousness, voluntary movement, and sensation caused by blockage or rupture of a brain artery; a stroke.

Etymology

ME f. OF apoplexie f. LL apoplexia f. Gk apoplexia (as APOPLECTIC)

THESAURUS

apoplexy

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, angina, angina pectoris, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, arrest, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, attack, auricular fibrillation, autonomic epilepsy, beriberi heart, blockage, breakup, cardiac arrest, cardiac epilepsy, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, cataclysm, catalepsy, cataplexy, climax, clonic spasm, clonus, congenital heart disease, convulsion, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, cortical epilepsy, cramp, cursive epilepsy, diastolic hypertension, diastrophism, diplegia, disaster, diurnal epilepsy, eclampsia, encased heart, endocarditis, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, extrasystole, falling sickness, fatty heart, fibroid heart, fit, flask-shaped heart, focal epilepsy, frenzy, frosted heart, grand mal, grip, hairy heart, haute mal, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, hemiplegia, high blood pressure, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, infantile paralysis, ischemic heart disease, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lockjaw, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, musicogenic epilepsy, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myoclonous epilepsy, myovascular insufficiency, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, overthrow, ox heart, palpitation, palsy, paralysis, paralytic stroke, paraplegia, paresis, paroxysm, paroxysmal tachycardia, pericarditis, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pile, polio, poliomyelitis, premature beat, pseudoaortic insufficiency, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, quake, reflex epilepsy, rheumatic heart disease, rotatoria, round heart, sclerosis, seizure, sensory epilepsy, sensory paralysis, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, spasm, stony heart, stoppage, stroke, tachycardia, tardy epilepsy, temblor, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tidal wave, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, trismus, tsunami, turtle heart, ucinate epilepsy, upheaval, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, visitation

ROGET THESAURUS

apoplexy

Impotence

N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.