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Example sentences for "apoplexy"

Lexicographically close words:
apoot; apophthegms; apophyses; apophysis; apoplectic; aposiopesis; apostacy; apostasies; apostasy; apostate
  1. Therefore I say, go and speak to her, for she will have you and she will be better with you than near that apoplexy of a San Miniato.

  2. Occasionally more serious consequences follow; gastric disorders result, apoplexy is induced; or, perhaps, the individual never wakes.

  3. Stupor, apoplexy and convulsions are the forerunners of a fatal termination.

  4. It was very funny--when one could sit at ease upon the hilltop and smoke a cigarette while others risked apoplexy and their souls' salvation below.

  5. The last time I saw Babbitt he appeared to be nearer apoplexy than dyspepsia," he said.

  6. Probably if I wait and give 'em a chance they'll come in here and have apoplexy instead," he said.

  7. This man is striding up and down, cutting at my poor vines with his apoplexy of a whip.

  8. Already of a certain age, I am afflicted with an accession of flesh; moreover, I am short of breath, owing to this apoplexy of an asthma.

  9. Send an apoplexy to my uncle, the old stick!

  10. Apoplexy is a pistol-shot that does not miscalculate.

  11. Venesection or Leeches: to relieve arterial pressure when apoplexy is threatening.

  12. Eat your fill of 'em, and throw in some good red wine, and apoplexy will be waiting for you round the corner.

  13. You only give the apoplexy a quicker chance.

  14. And yet I fear that he may one day die suddenly, for his blood is very thick, and his father and his two brothers all died of apoplexy much about the same time of life.

  15. A stroke of apoplexy was at first believed to have caused his death, but a close examination revealed a curious discolouration of his skin.

  16. If you mention apoplexy to him, he'll add that on to the hundred and twenty diseases and dangers that threaten his life every moment.

  17. I thought his lordship was going to have a fit of apoplexy when he came into the gun-room.

  18. Syncope may be distinguished from apoplexy by the absence of stertorous breathing and lividity of the visible mucous membranes.

  19. Apoplexy may be termed a general paralysis, and in nonfatal attacks is a frequent cause of the various forms of palsy.

  20. From the fact that cerebral apoplexy is due to diseased or weakened blood vessels, the animal remains subject to subsequent attacks.

  21. In apoplexy there is generally found an atheromatous condition of the cerebral vessels, with weakening and degeneration of their walls.

  22. Apoplexy is characterized by a sudden loss of sensation and motion, profound coma, and stertorous, difficult breathing.

  23. Apoplexy is often confounded with cerebral congestion, but true apoplexy always consists in rupture of cerebral blood vessels, with blood extravasation and formation of blood clot.

  24. Apoplexy is typically the disease of those over fifty years of age.

  25. In apoplexy it is apt to be deep and long.

  26. If the apoplexy occurs in the street they are liable to be mishandled by those ignorant of their true condition.

  27. It has often been noted that people who suffer from apoplexy may have peculiar affections of their memory.

  28. Families have been traced in which, for five successive generations, there have been attacks of apoplexy between fifty-five and sixty years of age.

  29. There is a tradition that the third stroke of apoplexy is always fatal.

  30. The tradition that people with short necks are a little more liable to apoplexy than are those of longer cervical development has a certain amount of truth in it, though not near so much as is often claimed for it.

  31. An apoplexy on those solfeggi and on the man who made them!

  32. I could not smoke, and when I tried to go to sleep that cat--an apoplexy on her!

  33. The Count de Chalusse was stricken with apoplexy this evening, and he is probably dead by this time.

  34. The count was stricken with apoplexy in a cab.

  35. On the evening that the Count de Chalusse was struck with apoplexy M.

  36. The strokes of mortal disease are dealt mysteriously within; and who would not rather meet a body of armed savages than invisible apoplexy or paralysis?

  37. The cause of the apoplexy was not stated; but the general belief was, and has been among Florentine historians ever since, that it was brought on by a cord around her neck drawn tightly by the hands of her husband.

  38. She went, however; and the next morning Florence heard that the Lady Isabella had died suddenly in the night; and the court physicians, who were called to look at the body, testified that apoplexy was the cause of her death.

  39. But apoplexy may kill one in two hours, and aneurism only takes two minutes.

  40. Apoplexy was hinted at, but it was only a hint.

  41. She got well and weighed two hundred and thirty pounds, and then she had apoplexy and died.

  42. I could hear him nearly having apoplexy when he saw me utterly and blissfully absorbed in my book.

  43. Air sac mite Apoplexy of the brain Aptha Ascites Baldness Beak and throat obstruction Black head Body lice Body scabies Brain apoplexy Bronchitis Bronchitis verminous Bruises of the feet.

  44. He made scarcely any sound; he was too near apoplexy to speak; but the tears ran down his face, and one minute his hand would be up waving feebly to me to stop, the next he'd be signalling to go on again.

  45. The very babies took their first steps in splints, and when they tumbled were examined by their older playmates, and pronounced to be suffering from apoplexy or alcoholic poisoning, as fancy happened to suggest.

  46. FITS:--"Whether the fit be apoplexy or epilepsy all alcoholics are extremely bad, both at the time and afterwards.

  47. The doctor was terrified and died of apoplexy on the spot, but the “dead” man recovered fully.

  48. Before the physician arrived Mrs. Sarseville had begun to turn black, and he pronounced her dead, giving a certificate, in which he assigned apoplexy as the cause.

  49. Of palsy and apoplexy from violent exertions.

  50. In this manner the palsy, and apoplexy (which is an universal palsy) are frequently produced after convulsions, or other violent exertions; of this I shall add a few instances.

  51. In sleep and in apoplexy the pulse becomes slower, which is not owing to defect of irritability, for it is at the same time larger; and thence the quantity of the circulation is rather increased than diminished.

  52. The faculty of volition is gradually impaired, whence proceeds the instability of locomotion, inaccuracy of perception, and inconsistency of ideas; and is at length totally suspended, and a temporary apoplexy succeeds.

  53. The attack of palsy and apoplexy are known to recur with great frequency about the equinoxes.


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    Other words:
    access; angina; apoplexy; arrest; arteriosclerosis; attack; blockade; breakup; cataclysm; catalepsy; climax; convulsion; coronary; cramp; disaster; earthquake; eclampsia; epilepsy; fit; frenzy; grip; heart; ictus; lockjaw; occlusion; orgasm; overthrow; palpitation; palsy; paralysis; paresis; paroxysm; quake; sclerosis; seizure; spasm; stoppage; stroke; tachycardia; tetanus; throes; thrombosis; tsunami; upheaval; visitation