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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ap·o·plexy /ˈæpəˌplɛksi/
 中風

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ap·o·plexy /ˈæpəˌplɛksɪ/ 名詞
 卒中,中風

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ap·o·plex·y n.  Med. Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
 Note:The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other lesion within the substance of the brain; but it is sometimes extended to denote an effusion of blood into the substance of any organ; as, apoplexy of the lung.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 apoplexy
      n : a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or
          occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the
          brain [syn: stroke, cerebrovascular accident, CVA]