What's the difference between apoplectic and fury?

Apoplectic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apoplectical
  • (n.) One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
  • (2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (3) Intracerebral hemorrhage appeared in apoplectic fashion on two occasions and surgery was done after each attack.
  • (4) Before apoplectic fans of the Portland Timbers, whose home city bears the nickname Rose City, start writing in to complain, we’re referencing the decisive interventions made by Seattle’s Andy Rose in his last couple of games.
  • (5) The authors review 38 cases of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage operated on within 7 hours after the apoplectic attack.
  • (6) A decreased plasma level of the enzyme was found following a stroke in patients with cerebral bleeding, subarachnoid bleeding, and the apoplectic type of cerebral infarction.
  • (7) All 50 patients had EEG's and CT scans within the first two weeks of the apoplectic event.
  • (8) The apoplectic event developed spontaneously in one, and in the other it developed within two weeks of completing a course of radiotherapy to the pituitary gland.
  • (9) A 43-year-old patient was admitted to hospital with an apoplectic stroke caused by an angiographically confirmed partial stenosis of the arteria cerebri media branch.
  • (10) The highest hemorrhage rate (70.0%) was found in patients with prior neurological history who experienced apoplectic deterioration (acute-on-chronic presentation).
  • (11) Consistent therapy of hypertension decreases significantly the incidence of cerebral apoplectic attacks.
  • (12) In the second instance, a group was established with the apoplectic persons and their spouses on seven occasions.
  • (13) The second form differs clinically from the first by apoplectic-like development with a coma and rapid short course.
  • (14) But when the package and its accompanying photos arrived, I was apoplectic.
  • (15) Nicotine consumption alone increases the risk of cerebral apoplectic attacks in relation to age, by the 3-fold up to the 5-fold.
  • (16) Patients in whom apoplectic attacks had occurred, or who had local neurologic symptoms or a history of evident cerebrovascular disorders, were not included in the study.
  • (17) Five histologically distinctive uterine smooth muscle neoplasms with multifocal hemorrhages termed apoplectic leiomyomas were studied.
  • (18) The object of this investigation was to establish self-help groups for apoplectics and their spouses and to gain basic experience for establishing future self-help groups.
  • (19) Basing on the experiences, the author thinks of the next .--'Cerebro-vascular dementia may be able to be prevented, if a very small dose of triiodothyronine (T3) is given to the early stage after an apoplectic attack with a consideration to side-effects of T3.
  • (20) Next time you watch Alex Ferguson apoplectic about some perceived refereeing error or John Terry snarling, it might be hard not to bear in mind the good grace of the likes of Louis Smith, the charismatic British gymnast .

Fury


Definition:

  • (n.) A thief.
  • (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
  • (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
  • (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
  • (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
  • (4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
  • (5) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (6) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
  • (7) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (8) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
  • (9) But, as the latest Atlantic fury advances on these islands, it looks too little too late.
  • (10) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
  • (11) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
  • (12) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
  • (13) Tyson Fury: what next for Britain's new heavyweight boxing champion?
  • (14) The power of Murdoch himself can best be seen by the speed and fury of Tory MPs ready to criticise the Google tax deal even after George Osborne described it as a “major success”.
  • (15) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (16) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
  • (17) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
  • (18) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
  • (19) The IBF has stripped Tyson Fury of his world heavyweight title on account of his failure to defend the belt against the mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, instead choosing a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko , whom the Briton beat on 28 November.
  • (20) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.

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