Definition of Apoplectoid

1. Adjective. Resembling apoplexy.

Exact synonyms: Apoplectiform
Partainyms: Apoplexy, Apoplexy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apoplectoid

apophysis helicis
apophysitis
apophysitis tibialis adolescentium
apophyte
apophytes
apoplasmia
apoplast
apoplastic
apoplasts
apoplectic
apoplectic cyst
apoplectic retinitis
apoplectical
apoplectically
apoplectiform
apoplectoid (current term)
apoplex
apoplexed
apoplexes
apoplexies
apoplexy
apopotosis
apoprotein
apoprotein B100
apoprotein CII
apoproteins
apoptogenic
apoptoses
apoptosis
apoptosome

Literary usage of Apoplectoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"... feature in some cases ; while in others the attack has been apoplectoid in its character, of longer duration, and has been complicated by convulsions. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"His explanation of those cases of apoplexy which are attended with softening of the brain is as follows:— " In all cases of the apoplectoid or ..."

3. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"In multiple sclerosis the tremor is more jerky, and there are nystagmus, syllabic speech, eye troubles, paralyses, and often apoplectoid attacks. ..."

4. A Treatise on nervous and mental diseases by Landon Carter Gray (1895)
"The disease may gradually progress to great helplessness without actual paralysis, or there may be a sudden apoplectoid attack, or the patient may die of ..."

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