Apoplexy

['æpəpleksɪ] or ['æpəplɛksi]

解釋/意思:

(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

手打:谢莉

解釋/意思:

n. loss of sensation and of motion by a sudden stroke generally applied by modern medical writers to rupture of a blood-vessel with hemorrhage in the brain or its membranes whether with or without consciousness—also figuratively.—adjs. Apoplec′tic -al pertaining to or causing apoplexy: suffering from or likely to suffer from apoplexy.—adv. Apoplec′tically.—n. Ap′oplex (arch.) apoplexy.—adj. Ap′oplexed (Shak.) affected with apoplexy.

校對:卢瑟