#76 apoplexy

#76 apoplexy- sudden loss of consciousness, often followed by paralysis, caused by rupture of a blood vessel

- C14 from Old French apoplexie, from Latin apoplexia, from Greek apoplessein- to cripple by a stroke

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families. ~ George Eliot

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