stroke

death of a region of brain cells due to poor blood flow
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stroke

Summary

stroke is a cause of death[1]. stroke ranks in the top 7% of cause_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,767 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • stroke's instance of is recorded as cause of death[3].
  • stroke's instance of is recorded as symptom or sign[4].
  • stroke's instance of is recorded as syndrome[5].
  • The location of stroke was human brain[6].
  • stroke is a type of cerebrovascular disease[7].
  • stroke is a type of neurological symptom[8].
  • stroke is a type of general symptom[9].
  • stroke's Commons category is recorded as Stroke[10].
  • stroke's said to be the same as is recorded as cerebrovascular disease[11].
  • stroke's said to be the same as is recorded as stroke[12].
  • stroke's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as K90[13].
  • stroke's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Stroke[14].
  • stroke's medical examination is recorded as ROSIER scale[15].
  • stroke's medical examination is recorded as Orpington Prognostic Scale[16].
  • stroke's anatomical location is recorded as human brain[17].
  • stroke's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0024'}[18].
  • stroke's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.006'}[19].
  • stroke's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.031'}[20].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia[24].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[25].
  • stroke's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[26].
  • stroke's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C3390[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include cause of death[3], symptom or sign[4], and syndrome[5]. Recorded subclass of include cerebrovascular disease[7], neurological symptom[8], and general symptom[9].

Why It Matters

stroke ranks in the top 7% of cause_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,767 views/month).[2] stroke has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] stroke is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Epidemiology of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: incidence, prevalence, mortality, and risk factors. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Epidemiology of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: incidence, prevalence, mortality, and risk factors. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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