Why is stroke called stroke?

referring to the following, many patients suffering from stroke may have doubts about the doctor's diagnosis when they are in the clinic or in the hospital. It is not that they suspect that the doctor's diagnosis is wrong, but that a disease has been given multiple diagnosis names. For example, at the time of outpatient service or admission, the doctor wrote "stroke" or "cerebrovascular accident" on the medical record or admission notice; But after CT and other examinations, it is possible to make a diagnosis of "hemorrhagic stroke" or "ischemic stroke"; In the end, the discharge diagnosis was written as "cerebral hemorrhage" or "cerebral thrombosis". With so many names, patients and their families are simply confused. Let's talk about the origin of more than one disease. The name of "stroke" is actually the diagnostic name of Chinese medicine. In the past, "stroke" or "stroke" was referred to as "cerebral stroke" or "stroke" now. Modern medical research has found that the manifestation of "stroke" is caused by cerebral parenchymal ischemia due to the rupture and bleeding of cerebral vessels or the blockage of cerebral vessels, so western medicine calls it "acute cerebrovascular disease". Because of the sudden onset of the disease, it seems that disaster suddenly arrival, so it is also called "cerebrovascular accident." Therefore, the general term "stroke" or "cerebrovascular accident" is the general term for "acute cerebrovascular disease". Cerebrovascular accidents can be divided into two categories: hemorrhagic and ischemic. The former includes cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The latter includes transient ischemic attack, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism, among which cerebral thrombosis is the most common. Cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and transient ischemic attack are mostly caused by hypertension and arteriosclerosis; Subarachnoid hemorrhage is mostly caused by cerebral aneurysm and vascular malformation. Cerebral embolism is more common in young and middle-aged patients with heart disease, such as valvular heart disease and myocardial infarction, which is caused by emboli falling off and blocking cerebral vessels.