apoplecitical

[Eng. apoplectic; -al.] The same as APOPLECTIC, adj. (q.v.). "In an apoplectical case he found extravasated blood making way from the ventricles of the brain." -Derham. ap'-o-plexed, a . PLEXY); -ed .] Affected with apoplexy. [Old Eng. apoplex (APO But, sure, that sense Is apoplex'd: for madne would not err." Shakesp.: Hamlet, ili. 4. ap-o-plěx-, * ap'-ô-plěx-ie, * ap'-oplex, s . [In Fr. apoplexie ; Sp. apoplegia; Ital. a pop le i a ; Ger., Port., & Lat. apoplex i a ; Gr. ἀποπληξία ( apoplex i a ) = (1) a being disabled in mind, stupor; (2) the bodily disease described below; from ἀπόπληκτος ( apoplektos ), ἀποπλήσσω ( apoplē o ) = to disable in body or mind. Or από ( αμο ) = from, and πλήξις ( plēzis ) = a stroke, a blow; πλήσσω ( plē ō ) = to strike, to smite.] 1. Med .: A serious malady, coming on so suddenly and so violently that anciently any one affected by it was said to be at to nit us (thunder-struck), or side ratus (planet-struck). When a stroke of apoplexy takes place, there is a lo of sensation, voluntary motion, and intellect or thought, whilst respiration and the action of the heart and general vascular system still continue. The disease now described is properly called cerebral apoplexy, the cerebrum or brain being the part chiefly affected. Another malady has been called not very happily Pulmonary Apoplexy . It is the Pneumo-hemorrhagia of Andral, and consists of an effusion of blood into the parenchymatous substance of the lung, like that into the substance of the brain in cerebral apoplexy. "P. Humph. This apoplex will, certain, be his end." Shakesp.: 2 Henry IV., iv. 4. 2. Fig .: Anything that dulls the senses and paralyses action in the frame. "Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible."-Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iv. 5.