ictus

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The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis 7.

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  1. noun Medicine A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure.
  2. noun The accent that falls on a stressed syllable in a line of scanned verse.

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  • Hematoma expansion  It is well established that hematoma expansion in spontaneous ICH occurs within the first 24 hours after ictus in about one third of patients [38,39]. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Peeling and colleagues [80] showed a significant reduction of the perihematomal neutrophil infiltration 48 hours after ictus using the free-radical - trapping agent NXY-059 in a rat ICH model, suggesting that ROS have an important role in the physiopathology of the inflammatory response. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • They do not need to know how to place the ictus right now. —  New Liturgical Movement
  • In time, the curious in the group will start asking more specific questions about the ictus and how it all works. —  New Liturgical Movement
  • The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis 7. —  New Latin Grammar
 

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  1. Latin, stroke, from past participle of īcere, to strike.

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  1. Latin ictus, a blow, stroke, stab, thrust; in prosody or music, a beating time, a beat; from icere, past participle ictus, strike, hit, smite.
 

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/ˈɪktəs/
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