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also called apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident.  Pathology. a blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location  of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of part of the body, speech  difficulties, and if severe, loss of consciousness or death

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an event that comes out of of nowhere causing varying degrees of disability, disrupting families, careers and lives and causing everyone  to ask “what do we do now?”