Usually means: Sudden loss of bodily function.
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  3. apoplexy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. apoplexy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. apoplexy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. apoplexy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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noun:  (medicine, dated) Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
noun:  (medicine) Gross hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ.
noun:  (informal) A state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger.

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