apoplexy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apoplexy /ˈapəplɛksi/
▶noun (pl. apoplexies)
- 1 extreme anger.
- 2 dated unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral haemorrhage or stroke.
– origin ME: from OFr. apoplexie, from late L. apoplexia, from Gk apoplēxia, from apoplēssein ‘disable by a stroke’.
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