There are two kinds of strokes. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The point I've got in mind here is this-- even when you think you're perfectly safe, you could of course die of a stroke.

我脑中所想的重点是-,即便是当你认为自己十分安全的时候，你当然也有可能死于中风。

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Trauma, a blow to the head, a stroke can rid you of your language.

外伤,脑部撞击,中风,都可以让你失去语言能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Clots can block the flow of blood to the heart or brain and cause a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

That you put together diseases of the heart, cancer, stroke, and then chronic respiratory diseases, those first top four are accounting for a huge number of deaths.

心脏病,癌症,中风,和慢性呼吸道疾病,这四大疾病加起来造成了大量死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But experts generally advise against using the drug if more than three hours have passed after the first signs of a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

He notes: When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or arm and when it does fall we feel it in some measure and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

他说过，当我们看到有人要打,别一个人的腿或手臂，我们会不由自主的畏缩，手脚拢起来,当这一下打下来，某种程度上来说,我们会感受到和被打者一样的疼痛。

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Brain imaging showed that nearly eleven percent of them had suffered what is known as a silent stroke.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

MI stands for heart attack, myocardial infarction, and in this case you see an even bigger differential of people with a metabolic syndrome having even more elevated risk then they did for stroke.

I表示心脏病发作,心肌梗塞,在此可以看到患有代谢综合征的患者,比非患者心脏病发病风险更高

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But traditional guidelines say not to use tPA if more than three hours have passed after the first signs of a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

A study published in Stroke last year involved about two thousand people with an average age of sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Many people take aspirin to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke from blood clots.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Paul Bunyan could clear large wooded areas with a single stroke of his large, sharp axe.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

"They found that men can experience up to a three-fold increased risk of stroke, and that risk seemed to be well correlated with the severity of sleep apnea."

VOA: special.2011.05.04

A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In 1898, Jack Gardner died unexpectedly of a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

"We estimate in WHO that over thirty million lives can be saved in the next ten years by simple measures -- reducing the level of salt by fifteen to twenty percent, reducing the amount of tobacco, and increasing the number of people who are at risk of a heart attack and stroke to be on simple preventive treatment."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

After a Japanese tourist died from heat stroke near Red Square, the Kremlin,suspended a weekly changing of the guard ceremony.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The pontiff wiped sweat from his brow with a handkerchief on a day when health workers treated several hundred of those in attendance for heat stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Those comments echo earlier assessments by analysts here in Seoul, who say Kim Jong Il's apparent stroke about a year ago challenged perceptions of his complete command of the North's government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22