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Encyclopedia: Stroke

A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA),^[1] is an acute neurological injury in which the blood supply to a part of the brain is interrupted. That is, a stroke involves the sudden loss of neuronal function due to disturbance in cerebral perfusion. This disturbance in perfusion is commonly arterial, but can be venous.

The part of the brain with disturbed perfusion no longer receives adequate amounts of oxygen and glucose. This initiates the ischemic cascade which causes brain cells to die or be seriously damaged, impairing local brain function. Stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent neurologic damage or even death if not promptly diagnosed and treated. It is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and industrialized European nations. On average, a stroke occurs every 45 seconds and someone dies from a stroke every 3 minutes.

Translations

How to say "Stroke" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	中風
	(Japanese)	脳梗塞
	(German)	Schlaganfall
	(Spanish)	Accidente cerebrovascular
	(French)	Accident vasculaire cérébral
	(Italian)	Ictus

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IndexByStrokeCount

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BDC

BDC may mean: Bullet drop compensation B ottom D ead C enter, see four stroke cycle...

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Effleurage

Effleurage is a stroke used to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage...

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Todd Bridges

Actor Todd Bridges plays Willis Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes from 1978 to 1986...

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Gudrun Boysen

effects of strokes. She conducts research at the Department of Neurology, Bispebjerg Hospital... particular reference to Carotid surgery (Circulation, 49, 1023); Early Stroke: A Dynamic Process (Stroke, 32, 2423); Homocysteine and Risk of Recurrent Stroke (Stroke, 34, 1258) and Persisting Dilemma: To...

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Nen

The Kanji 年 Unicode character number - hex 5E74/decimal 24180 Stroke Order The small diagonal stroke at the top-left is done, from top-right to bottom-left. The top-most horizontal stroke is done, from left to right. The middle horizontal stroke is done, from left to right. The small vertical...

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Hyaku

The Kanji 百 Unicode character number - hex 767E/decimal 30334 Stroke Order The top-most horizontal stroke is done, from left to right. The small vertical stroke underneath the top-most horizontal stroke is done, from top to bottom. The rest of the strokes are done the same as they are in the...

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Stroke speed

Stroke speed : In facsimile systems, the rate at which a fixed line perpendicular to the direction of scanning is crossed in one direction by a scanning or recording spot. Note 1: Stroke speed is usually expressed as a number of strokes per minute. When the system scans in both directions, the...

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Sei

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Five Stroke method

The Wubi Hua (五笔划), or Five Stroke method, is a Chinese input method for writing text on a computer. It is based on the stroke order of a word, and can be input using only a numerical keypad... certain type of stroke: 1 for horizontal strokes, 2 for vertical strokes, 3 for downwards right-to...

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