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n. Medicine A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure.

n. The accent that falls on a stressed syllable in a line of scanned verse.

n. the pulse

n. A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

n. The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.

n. The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. arsis.

n. A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

n. A stroke: as, ictus solis, sunstroke.

n. In prosody and music, rhythmical or metrical stress; additional intensity of utterance or delivery distinguishing one time or syllable in a foot or series from the others.

n. in which the accent is marked and the syllables bearing the ictus are italicized. The part of a foot on which the ictus falls is called the thesis (but see arsis). In a dipody one ictus is stronger than the other. In a colon the ictus of one measure dominates all others. A subordinate ictus can also accompany the principal ictus within the same foot.

n. a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease

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attack   

arsis   

absence seizure    convulsion    focal seizure    absence    raptus hemorrhagicus   

metri    digni    solutus    Tori    lata    vivit    tenetur    certumst    deliciis    aromatization