Why is a stroke called a stroke?

[broberfett]

Just curious.

I refer to the health condition, not any sexual activity.

 

[Jadzia]

Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC) was first to describe the phenomenon of sudden paralysis that is often associated with ischemia. Apoplexy, from the Greek word meaning "struck down with violence,” first appeared in Hippocratic writings to describe this phenomenon.

The word stroke was used as a synonym for apoplectic seizure as early as 1599, and is a fairly literal translation of the Greek term.

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[broberfett]

Now I know and knowing is half the battle.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC) was first to describe the phenomenon of sudden paralysis that is often associated with ischemia. Apoplexy, from the Greek word meaning "struck down with violence,” first appeared in Hippocratic writings to describe this phenomenon.

The word stroke was used as a synonym for apoplectic seizure as early as 1599, and is a fairly literal translation of the Greek term.

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God bless Wikipedia.

 

[ThankQ]

Now I know and knowing is half the battle.

Half the battle against what?

 

[Ruaidhri]

Now I know and knowing is half the battle.

Half the battle against what?

COBRA, we assume.

 

[TheLonelySquire]

I thought we were talking about golf.

 

[TheBrew]

It's because for every extra stroke you take in golf, it feels like a vein is going to burst in your head and since so many doctors play golf, it carried over.

 

[Kirby]

Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC) was first to describe the phenomenon of sudden paralysis that is often associated with ischemia. Apoplexy, from the Greek word meaning "struck down with violence,” first appeared in Hippocratic writings to describe this phenomenon.

The word stroke was used as a synonym for apoplectic seizure as early as 1599, and is a fairly literal translation of the Greek term.

This is all well and good, but I'd like Billy Squire's take on this before we call it done.

 

[Roshi]

Now I know and knowing is half the battle.

Half the battle against what?

against ignorance...

 

[ThankQ]

Now I know and knowing is half the battle.

Half the battle against what?

against ignorance...

Wouldn't knowing be the entire battle against ignorance?

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Hippocrates (460 to 370 BC) was first to describe the phenomenon of sudden paralysis that is often associated with ischemia. Apoplexy, from the Greek word meaning "struck down with violence,” first appeared in Hippocratic writings to describe this phenomenon.

The word stroke was used as a synonym for apoplectic seizure as early as 1599, and is a fairly literal translation of the Greek term.

This is all well and good, but I'd like Billy Squire's take on this before we call it done.

You stole my reference.

 

[Roshi]

Half the battle against what?

against ignorance...

Wouldn't knowing be the entire battle against ignorance?

I think spreading knowledge is the other half...

 

[Deckerd]

The OED has a completely different etymology: 6. An attack of disease. a. An apoplectic or (now more usually) paralytic seizure. Formerly

the stroke of God's hand.