What's the difference between apoplexy and poplexy?
Apoplexy
Definition:
(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no adrenal apoplexy or extensive haemorrhage that could explain shock in these patients.
(2) Acute symptomatic failure of the pituitary gland (pituitary apoplexy) commonly occurs in patients who have asymptomatic pituitary tumors.
(3) Catastrophic haemorrhage may occur even in small pituitary tumours and may result in the clinical syndrome of apoplexy with or without subsequent hypopituitarism.
(4) In 12 cases of pituitary apoplexy, a preexisting unsuspected adenoma was found.
(5) Therefore, our retrospective study suggests that pituitary apoplexy is not uncommon and has an acute clinical presentation.
(6) Pituitary apoplexy is an unusual manifestation of metastatic pituitary disease.
(7) In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy.
(8) Total and coronary mortality rates have been determined and also the incidence of certain non-fatal states which required hospitalization due to various types of coronary heart disease (CHD), hypertension, brain apoplexy, diabetes mellitus and malignancies.
(9) Histologically an adrenal apoplexy with necrosis and in liver, spleen and lung a lot of neutrophils were seen.
(10) They illustrate the difficulty of differentiating pituitary apoplexy from other acute neurologic conditions.
(11) In the majority of apoplexy patients the absence of a primary haemorrhage points to acute vascular occclusion with regional ischemia as the initiating event.
(12) Pituitary apoplexy is a syndrome with variable clinical manifestations depending on which parasellar structures (such as the optic nerves and chiasm, cavernous and sphenoid sinuses, or the hypothalamus) are compressed when the pituitary undergoes rapid enlargement.
(13) Pituitary apoplexy, a rare but life-threatening condition, may be highly variable in its clinical appearance and therefore should be considered in any patient with abrupt neurologic deterioration.
(14) Postpartum abdominal apoplexy is a rare obstetric complication that is associated with a very high maternal mortality rate.
(15) During the first year after the pituitary apoplexy, severe proliferative retinopathy developed in the left eye, which became almost blind.
(16) This report deals with a detailed course of one patient with acromegaly who had a pituitary apoplexy.
(17) A case of acromegaly complicated by pituitary apoplexy is described.
(18) The aim of surgical intervention is primarily to prevent ischemia and simultaneous cerebral apoplexy, and only after this to prevent the progressions of the existing ischemic changes.
(19) Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical features.
(20) A patient, 38-year-old man, with hemorrhage into a prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma, or pituitary apoplexy, is reported.