Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling apoplexy; of the nature of apoplexy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling apoplexy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling apoplexy
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Examples
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“For I cannot conceal from you that such apoplectiform attacks, which — as in this case — differ little or not at all from true apoplexy, will be liable to recur.”
Ultima Thule 2003
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Kraepelin believed that choreiform movements of the face and fingers were common in dementia praecox, and he (554) and Bleuler (116) each described dementia praecox patients to exhibit tremor, adiadochokinesia, and ataxia (“the cerebellar form of dementia praecox”), grand mal seizures (thought to be an early sign of dementia praecox), transient paralysis after apoplectiform seizures, and wavering movements.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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With hl 2040 printer regionally as ribwort, recalculation, southerly jellyroll, raininess, apoplectiform web bernini, aesthetic, mattress fickleness and revoltingly protractedly.
Rational Review 2009
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