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Definition of Apoplexies
1. apoplexy [n] - See also: apoplexy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apoplexies
Literary usage of Apoplexies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1802)
"24- INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF IMPERIAL apoplexies. [From the Times. ...
of apoplexies. Citizen Monge, the celebrated ..."
2. Clinical lectures on mental diseases by Sir Thomas Smith Clouston, Charles Follen Folsom (1884)
"Paralytic Insanity, or Organic Dementia, is that form of mental disturbance which
accompanies and results from such gross brain lesions a~ apoplexies, ..."
3. Boerhaave's Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases by Herman Boerhaave, J. Delacoste (1715)
"The quick Event of apoplexies, their depending often from and joyning with
Inflammations, their producing many Evils, requires that we ..."
4. Medical examinations for life-insurance by Jonathan Adams Allen (1866)
"... to urinary diseases ; to fatty degenerations ; to cardiac and other obstructions
from undue deposits ; to dropsies, apoplexies, paralyses, and the like. ..."
5. Text-book of nervous diseases: Being a Compendium for the Use of Students by Charles Loomis Dana (1894)
"THE apoplexies. Apoplexy is a condition characterized by a sudden paralysis and
shock, usually with loss of consciousness, and due to the breaking or ..."
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