apoplexy, apoplexia
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(ap′ŏ-plek″sē)
[Gr. apoplēktikos, crippled by a stroke]
1. Copious effusion of blood into an organ, as in abdominal apoplexy or pulmonary apoplexy.
2. An obsolete term for stroke, esp. of a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
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(ap′ŏ-plek″sē)
[Gr. apoplēktikos, crippled by a stroke]
1. Copious effusion of blood into an organ, as in abdominal apoplexy or pulmonary apoplexy.
2. An obsolete term for stroke, esp. of a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
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