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A traffic jam in the brain where every second steals neurons by the million.
means A sudden interruption of blood flow to part of the brain — by a clot or a bleed — that starves brain tissue and can rapidly cause weakness, slurred speech, or worse.
from From Old English 'strac,' a blow or stroke of the hand, tied to the verb 'strican,' to move lightly over or strike — a cousin of German 'streichen' and the same root that gives us 'strike.' For centuries it just meant a hit or a sudden movement, then by around the 16th century it took on the sense of a sudden affliction, as though the body had been struck down 'by the hand of God.' That older sense survives in 'a stroke of luck' — a blow from fate, for better or worse.
- clock
- Roughly 1.9 million neurons die each untreated minute
- swimming
- Same word names a stroke, a paint stroke, a brain attack
- age myth
- Strikes infants and twenty-somethings, not just elders
- warning
- Face droop, arm weakness, slurred speech: call fast
- clot busting
- Drugs can dissolve blockages within hours of onset
tiger woods 2019 masters — won by one stroke after 11-year major drought
jack nicklaus 1986 masters — at age 46, won with final round 65