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  • adjective Characteristic of a stroke (medical incident)

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Examples

  • Adding to the political drama has been the absence of Mr. Zardari, 56, who unexpectedly left the country on Dec. 6 for medical treatment and was recuperating at his home in Dubai from what his doctor called strokelike symptoms.

    NYT > Home Page By ERIC SCHMITT 2011

  • Adding to the political drama has been the absence of Mr. Zardari, 56, who unexpectedly left the country on Dec. 6 for medical treatment and was recuperating at his home in Dubai from what his doctor called strokelike symptoms.

    NYT > Home Page By ERIC SCHMITT 2011

  • The behavior is almost strokelike in its fixed, inalterable nature.

    Sci Fi Writters 'R' Smart 2010

  • The behavior is almost strokelike in its fixed, inalterable nature.

    March 2010 2010

  • The behavior is almost strokelike in its fixed, inalterable nature.

    Sci Fi Writters 'R' Smart 2010

  • But the experimental drug, prasugrel (PRASS-uh-grell), caused more severe bleeding than Plavix, especially in patients who are elderly and frail and who have had strokes or fleeting strokelike episodes.

    Experimental heart drug beats Plavix in trials 2007

  • TIAs are strokelike symptoms that last less than twenty-four hours.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • TIAs are strokelike symptoms that last less than twenty-four hours.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • TIAs are strokelike symptoms that last less than twenty-four hours.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • TIAs are strokelike symptoms that last less than twenty-four hours.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

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