| functional apoplexy | A condition simulating apoplexy without any cerebral lesion; a form of conversion hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| abdominal apoplexy | <surgery> Mesenteric haemorrhage, thrombosis, or embolus involving the mesenteric or abdominal blood vessels. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| adrenal apoplexy | Haemorrhage into the adrenal glands or thrombosis of the adrenal veins, followed by acute adrenal insufficiency, occurring in the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apoplexy | <clinical sign, neurology> Haemorrhage into the brain. A stroke. It is usually associated with loss of consciousness and paralysis of various parts of the body. (27 Sep 1997) |
| bulbar apoplexy | Apoplexy due to vascular lesion in the brainstem. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pituitary apoplexy | Sudden haemorrhage into or ischemic necrosis of a normal or adenomatous pituitary gland. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cutaneous apoplexy | Archaic term for a sudden rush of blood to the skin and subcutaneous tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heat apoplexy | A severe and often fatal illness produced by exposure to excessively high temperatures, especially when accompanied by marked exertion. It can manifest by elevated body temperature, lack of sweating, hot dry skin, and neurologic symptoms; unconsciousness, paralysis, headache, vertigo, confusion. In severe cases very high fever, vascular collapse, and coma develop. Synonym: heat apoplexy, heat hyperpyrexia, malignant hyperpyrexia, thermic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spinal apoplexy | Stroke involving the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| splenic apoplexy | Peracute anthrax often seen in ruminants, in which death occurs very quickly after the appearance of the first signs of the disease; grossly enlarged spleen and capillary haemorrhages are often the only lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal apoplexy | Intracranial haemorrhage in newborn children. (05 Mar 2000) |
| uteroplacental apoplexy | Extravasation of blood into the uterine musculature and beneath the uterine peritoneum in association with severe forms of abruptio placentae. Synonym: uteroplacental apoplexy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| labyrinthine apoplexy | A clinical syndrome manifested as a single, abrupt attack of severe vertigo, nausea, and vomiting, with permanent loss of labyrinthine function on one side, but without associated hearing loss or tinnitus. Attributed to occlusion of the labyrinthine branch of the internal auditory artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hearing loss, functional | Hearing loss without a physical basis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| orthodontic appliances, functional | Loose, usually removable intra-oral devices which alter the muscle forces against the teeth and craniofacial skeleton. These are dynamic appliances which depend on altered neuromuscular action to effect bony growth and occlusal development. They are usually used in mixed dentition to treat paediatric malocclusions. (ada, 1992) (12 Dec 1998) |
| functional | 1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official. 2. <physiology> Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. <medicine> Functional disease, a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |