APOPLEXY (stroke or apoplectic fit). - Sudden abolition of sensation, motility and external consciousness of the individual (v. COMA) due to destructive lesions of the brain (cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism). The simultaneous abolition of internal consciousness is probable, so that, although the principal functions of vegetative life are more or less persistently preserved, the patient must be considered deprived of the use of his own intelligence. If death does not follow, when the coma resolves there appear paralyses of sense and motion, more or less extensive, and disturbances of speech (aphasia). If the causal lesions were not very extensive and severe, the ictus may resolve, and, more or less rapidly and completely, consciousness may be regained, though sensory-motor paralyses and intellectual deficits easily remain. Besides arteriosclerosis, a frequent cause is syphilis.
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Apoplessia (Ictus O Colpo Apoplettico).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1671. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/apoplessia-ictus-o-colpo-apoplettico.
MLA
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Apoplessia (Ictus O Colpo Apoplettico).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1671. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/apoplessia-ictus-o-colpo-apoplettico.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_apoplessia_ictus_o_colpo_apopl,
author = {De, Ninno Giuseppe},
title = {Apoplessia (Ictus O Colpo Apoplettico)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1671},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/apoplessia-ictus-o-colpo-apoplettico}
}
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