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10 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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apoplexy
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tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:unconciousness due to cerebral hemorrhage or stroke
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Something must have happened. Apoplexy! I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted. Running down stairs, I quickly stated my suspicions to the first person I met— the chamber-maid. "La! la!" she cried, "I thought something must be the matter.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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“Dougal said he had a stroke—an apoplexy, I mean,” I said, startled.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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the men on the other side were waiting, red faces swollen as though from apoplexy as they bent forward in their chairs.
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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"[...] Judge Pechert raved at those ten women and two men for twenty minutes. I thought he was going to have apoplexy.”
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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