单词 | apoplexy |
释义 | apoplexyn. 1. a. A malady, very sudden in its attack, which arrests more or less completely the powers of sense and motion; it is usually caused by an effusion of blood or serum in the brain, and preceded by giddiness, partial loss of muscular power, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > apoplexy apoplexyc1386 poplexyc1410 apoplex?1537 sudden stroke1543 catarrh1554 strong apoplexy1583 strong1820 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 21 Napoplexie [v.r. nepoplexie] ne shente nat hir heed. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. xv. 105 Apoplexia is an euel þat makeþ a man lese al maner felinge. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 5117 in Wks. (1931) I Sum ar dissoluit suddantlye Be Cattarue or be Poplesye. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 113 This appoplexi as I take it? is a kind of lethergie..a kind of sleeping in the bloud, a horson tingling. View more context for this quotation 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence lxxvii. 692 Whilst Apoplexy cramm'd Intemperance knocks Down to the ground at once, as butcher felleth ox. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. i. ii. 11 Frequent apoplexies would be the result. b. in Falconry. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of hawks crampc1430 frouncea1450 teena1450 crayc1450 ryec1450 aggresteyne1486 agrum1486 fallera1486 filanders1486 gall1575 pantas1575 pin1575 pin gout1575 stroke1575 apoplexy1614 crock1614 formica1614 privy evil1614 back-worma1682 verol1688 croak1707 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 163 The Apoplexie or falling euill in Hawkes. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Apoplexy..a Disease that seizes the Heads of Hawks, commonly by reason of two much Grease and Store of Blood. 2. transferred or figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biiijv His disease is the very Apoplexie of the Donatistes. 1678 Young Man's Calling 52 Foolishness: it is the souls apoplexy, wherein all the noble faculties of the mind are cast into a dead sleep. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. iii. 472 The country was without a centre. There was small chance of apoplexy where there was no head. 3. Also applied by some to the effusion of blood in other organs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > intravasation or extravasation bloodshot1611 diapedesis1625 intravasation1674 extravasation1676 apoplexy1853 transmigration1890 gastrostaxis1906 insudation1966 1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Apoplexy cutaneous, a singular term employed by certain French writers for a great and sudden determination of blood to the skin. 1880 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Apoplexy retinal, effusion of blood in the retina from rupture of its vessels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1386 |
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