(n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.
(n.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fasting serum glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, and fructosamine concentrations were determined in 304 consecutive subjects admitted with acute stroke, within 48 hours of ictus.
(2) These drugs have been used in primary infarction prophylaxis and secondary prophylaxis of arterial thrombosis at a cardiac (reinfarction, instable angina, valvular prosthesis, aortocoronary bypass, coronary angioplasty), cerebral (TIA, ictus) and peripheral (obliterating arteriopathy, thromboendarterectomy, arteriovenous shunt) level.
(3) The CT lesion reappeared with recurrence of the ictus in four cases during follow-up, and this, too, disappeared after complete arrest of the seizures.
(4) Daily trends in blood pressure, osmolality and electrolytes were analyzed in a series of 173 operated aneurysm cases who had subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and were admitted within 4 days of the ictus.
(5) The signals were hypointense or hyperintense compared to the normal side according to the intervals between the MRI examinations and the ictuses.
(6) This study included 72 cases of surgically treated aneurysms, Hunt and Hess Grades 1-4, operated on within 72 hours of the ictus.
(7) "Break of contact" during the ictus was found in 70% of the seizures, and secondary generalization occurred in half.
(8) The results suggest that about half of all patients with ischaemic stroke in Hong Kong would present within 12 hours of ictus, in time for inclusion in a therapeutic trial.
(9) Ictal EEG showed rhythmic alpha-waves in the left frontal area association with the ictus.
(10) In the relatively early stages, at least three months after ictus, increased signal intensities in axial T2-weighted images--with or without decreased signal intensities in axial T1-weighted images--were observed in the brain stem ipsilaterally.
(11) Contrast-enhanced CT may provide a contributory method in the establishment of cerebral death, in addition to elucidating the etiology of the ictus.
(12) Twelve patients with acute hypertensive intracranial hemorrhage underwent magnetic resonance (MR) imaging within 7 days after the ictus.
(13) A multi-center controlled double-blind clinical study was carried out to evaluate the effects of nizofenone in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage who were treated within 2 weeks of the ictus.
(14) In this model, therefore, ischemic damage appears to be due to the local effects of blood overlying the cortex at 4 hours after the ictus, rather than to globally raised intracranial pressure.
(15) In later stages, at least six months after ictus, shrinkage of the brain stem ipsilaterally--with or without decreased signal intensities--was clearly observed in axial T1-weighted images.
(16) Light reflex of the left pupil had seen 5 days after the ictus.
(17) The levels found in samples obtained in patients following SAH are compared with those found in controls and also correlated with clinical grade on admission as assessed by the Glasgow Coma Score and the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons' grading system, and with the amount of subarachnoid blood seen on CT, the occurrence of ischaemic deterioration, the occurrence of low-density change on CT, the presence of vasospasm on angiography, clinical outcome as assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Score 3 months following the ictus, and the incidence of ischaemia as a cause of death or disability as assessed 3 months following the ictus.
(18) At the chronic stage (more than two weeks after the ictus) the signal pattern of hematomas became variable: hyperintense on both T1WIs and T2WIs early at this stage; hypointense on T1WIs but mostly hyperintense on T2WIs latter.
(19) In a prospective study to correlate admission glucose level with neurologic outcome in stroke, 252 acute stroke patients without prior disability and admitted within 24 hours of onset of ictus were assessed.
(20) The lipid profiles of the 53 patients suffering lacunar infarction were similar on both occasions, the only significant differences being higher total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol concentrations less than or equal to 48 hours after ictus.
Sunstroke
Definition:
(n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.
Example Sentences:
(1) She looks at me compassionately, as if I have sunstroke.
(2) The internal release of histamine after sunstroke and cold stress may play a part in sudden dusturbances of hearing.
(3) Sunstroke This is the most common type of heatstroke, caused by the sun shining directly on the head and neck for long periods.
(4) She found her mother and little sister sheltering in the field hospital, a small hall close to the mosque with rudimentary facilities for treating sunstroke and flu.
(5) A patient developed generalized anhidrosis, probably following sunstroke.
(6) Sunstroke is too restrictive to fit the multiplicity of regions and motifs.
(7) Children are particularly vulnerable to sunstroke, and the hospital has seen a rise in the number of cases of diarrhoea and vomiting.
(8) It was very much a cliche of a teenage girl's summer: hot days, balmy evenings, the deepest tan of my life, sunstroke, ghost stories and singalongs by the campfire accompanied by dodgy guitar, a lot of laughing and a few tears, too much ice cream, promises to never forget this, OK?
(9) He did indeed become worried about Dadd's odd state of mind on their journey, and it was suggested that he was affected by sunstroke.
(10) The slight variation of temperature observed and the elevated sunstroke in Spain in addition to the youth of the population studied may explain the lack of seasonal variation.