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ic·tus

 (ĭk′təs)
n. pl. ictus or ic·tus·es
1. Medicine A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure.
2. The accent that falls on a stressed syllable in a line of scanned verse.

[Latin, stroke, from past participle of īcere, to strike.]
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ictus

(ˈɪktəs)
n, pl -tuses or -tus
1. (Poetry) prosody metrical or rhythmic stress in verse feet, as contrasted with the stress accent on words
2. (Medicine) med a sudden attack or stroke
[C18: from Latin icere to strike]
ˈictal adj
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ic•tus

(ˈɪk təs)

n., pl. -tus•es, -tus.
1. rhythmical or metrical stress in verse.
2.
a. an epileptic seizure.
b. a stroke, esp. a cerebrovascular accident.
[1700–10; < Latin: stroke, thrust]
ic′tic, adj.
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ictus

- The beat of the pulse, based on the Latin word for "stroke."
See also related terms for pulse.
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ictus

Medicine. 1. a stroke or beat, as the beat of the pulse. See also verse.
2. a paralytic stroke.
See also: Body, Human
the stress or accent that indicates the rhythm of a verse or piece of music. See also music.
See also: Verse
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.ictus - a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a diseaseictus - a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure"
attack - a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an attack of diarrhea"
convulsion - violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles
focal seizure - transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity
raptus hemorrhagicus - seizure caused by a sudden profuse hemorrhage
absence seizure, absence - the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
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Translations

ictus

n pl <ictuses or ictus> (Liter) → Iktus m, → Versakzent m
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ictus

[ˈɪktəs] nictus m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ic·tus

n. ictus, ataque súbito.
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All the patients were inquired regarding history of hypertension, hemiplegia, and duration of ictus. Clinical examination was done and GCS, power, pupils were checked.
About 30% of the patients exhibit haematoma growth in first six hours post ictus, which is evident from the high mortality documented in the first 24 hours in several studies.
[50.] Arboix A, Rubio F ?Que es el ictus? Clasificacion y tipos etiologicos.
[sup][18],[19] However, the ICTUS showed that an early invasive strategy was not better than an early conservative strategy, even for the higher risk patients, on the short-term and long-term clinical follow-up.
After so much conceptual (read: de-skilled) choreography in galleries, the unabashed virtuosity of Ictus and Rosas was exhilarating.
Por otra parte, la diversidad de especies reportada en este trabajo (Cuadro 1) representa el 23.07% del listado original de Marquez-Mayaudon (1968) y la presencia de Conocephalus (Xiphidion) ictus (Scudder, 1875) Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae constituye un nuevo registro para esta reserva ecologica.
Data are from mild to moderate AD patients under ChEI treatment recruited in the Impact of Cholinergic Treatment USe (ICTUS) study.
He has helped to found and run a number of arts organizations, including the Euphonia Foundation for Music, the Jubilate festival, the Culture et Democratie non-profit association, the Ictus Ensemble, the Jeune Philharmonie/ Jonge Filharmonie youth orchestra, the Trento Foundation, the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg non-profit association and the Queen Elisabeth Foundation.
ICTUS trial was an international randomized multicentre placebo-controlled trial to confirm the results of pooled data in a large clinical trial available on the effect of Citicoline on the recovery of patients with moderate to severe acute ischaemic stroke at 3 months.
ICTUS Projects, a member of the Epicor Inspired Partner Network,