Apoplexy

(ap'-o-pleks-e). The symptom-complex resulting from cerebral hemorrhage, effusion, or from the plugging of a cerebral ve el. Modern writers mostly describe the mortem appearances by other terms, as cerebral hemorrhage, effusion, thrombosis, etc. The chief symptom is sudden lo of motion, sensation and consciousne the patient falling and lying as if dead. There is frequently a conjugate deviation of the eyes and a j rotation of the head away from the paralyzed side, j and tmvard the side on which the cerebral lesion exists.. Death may result instantaneously, or shortly, or the patient may recover consciousne and then be found to 1 suffering from paralysis of one-half of the body (HA plcgia, q. v.). The bursting of a ve el in the lung liver, etc., is sometimes called apoplexy of the lung liver, etc. A., Capillary, from rupture and effusio of capillaries. A., Ingravescent, a term applied to a form of apoplexy in which there is a slowly of blood from a ruptured ve el. A., Pulmonary, escape of blood into the pulmonary parenchyma, with laceration of its substance. A., Simple, the name given to those cases of death from coma in which no cerebral lesion is found. A., Spinal. See Hematomyelia . A., Splenic. Synonym of Anthrax.