What is APOPLEXY? Definition of APOPLEXY in Black's Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. The failure of consciousness and suspension of voluntary motion from suspension of the functions of the cerebrum.
The group of symptoms arising from rupture of a minute artery and consequent hemorrhage into the substance of the brain or from the lodgment of a minute clot in one of the cerebral arteries.
The symptoms consist usually of sudden loss of consciousness, muscular relaxation, lividity of the face and slow stertorous respiration, lasting from a few hours to several days. Death frequently ensues. If consciousness returns, there is found paralysis of some of the voluntary muscles, very frequently of the muscles of the face, arm, and leg upon one side, giving the symptom of hemiplegia. There is usually more or less mental impairment, which presents no uniform character, but varies indefinitely.
By apoplexy is meant a break or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, not produced by any external cause. Robinson v. ./Etna Life Ins. Co., Tex.Com.App., 276 S.W. 900, 902.
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