ictus in English

noun
1
a rhythmical or metrical stress.
His great authority, Cresollius, disapproved of orators using ‘ ictus or musicall cadence of the fingers’ in free prose, ‘though it may be tollerable for the setting of the intervalls of restrained numbers.’
2
a stroke or seizure; a fit.
More typically ictal symptoms of depression are followed by alteration of consciousness as the ictus evolves from a simple to a complex partial seizure.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "ictus" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "ictus", or refer to the context using the word "ictus" in the English Dictionary.

1. Attempted murder despite aberratio ictus.

2. The Amnesic ictus is a brutal and traumatic disorder for the person […]

3. The metrical accent or ictus was marked in ancient notation by points placed over the Accented syllable

4. Arses definition: (in classical prosody ) the long syllable or part on which the ictus falls in a metrical Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

5. Arsis definition: (in classical prosody ) the long syllable or part on which the ictus falls in a metrical Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

6. Hypernyms ("Absence" is a kind of): ictus; raptus; seizure (a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Absence"): complex Absence (an Absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes))

7. Ein Schlaganfall (auch Gehirnschlag, Hirnschlag, zerebraler Insult, apoplektischer Insult, Apoplexia cerebri, Ictus apoplecticus, veraltet Schlagfluss (noch älter auch mittellateinisch gutta, „Tropfen“, und mittelhochdeutsch gutt), umgangssprachlich Schlag (englisch stroke), in der medizinischen Umgangssprache häufig auch Apoplex, Apoplexie oder Insult) ist eine plötzlich