bloodstroke
English
editEtymology
editFrom blood + stroke. Compare French coup de sang.
Noun
editbloodstroke (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
- 1829, George Warren, A commentary, with practical observations on disorders of the head:
- All other measures relative to the bloodstroke have an equal reference to those cases where the patient.
- A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.
- 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, page 18:
- Cleaving the air with bloodstroke upon bloodstroke, Jarl made his bitter steel sing.
References
edit- “bloodstroke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.