ictus

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.

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

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

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.

ictus

- The beat of the pulse, based on the Latin word for "stroke."

See also related terms for pulse.

ictus

Medicine. 1. a stroke or beat, as the beat of the pulse. See also verse.
2. a paralytic stroke.

See also: Body, Human

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the stress or accent that indicates the rhythm of a verse or piece of music. See also music.

See also: Verse

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ictus - a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" raptus, 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

Translations

ictus

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

ictus

[ˈɪktəs] n → ictus m inv

ic·tus

n. ictus, ataque súbito.