Noun
Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Source: Webster's dictionary. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . George Eliot
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow. Democritus
He died of apoplexy about 20 January 1664.sfn Character assessment As a religious writer Ambrose has a vividness and freshness of imagination possessed by scarcely any of the Puritan Nonconformists. Source: Internet
Bartholomeus (Ptolemy) of Lucca says, subito factus apoplecticus, sine loquela moritur ('suddenly stricken with apoplexy, he died without speaking'). Source: Internet
Both of Frances’ brothers died in World War I and her father succumbed to apoplexy shortly thereafter. Source: Internet
The narrator observes: “Whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost’s incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale – as the coroner’s jury would have us believe – is no matter for my judging.” Source: Internet