bloodstroke

blood +‎ stroke. Compare French coup de sang.

bloodstroke (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
   • 1829, George Warren, A commentary, with practical observations on disorders of the head:

     All other measures relative to the bloodstroke have an equal reference to those cases where the patient.

2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.
   • 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, page 18:

     Cleaving the air with bloodstroke upon bloodstroke, Jarl made his bitter steel sing.

• “bloodstroke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.