It's vital that anyone with signs of stroke get to a hospital as soon as possible, because "time is brain". Once a stroke starts, it continues to damage the brain until blood flow is re-established.
That is one meaning of the circle beloved of calligraphers in Japan, just a big bold stroke, starting at the beginning and travelling back to it in a round sweep.
The five-pointed star – or seiman – a talismanic design that appears on the ama's headscarves and tools, is written in a single stroke, starting and ending at the same point, to symbolise a safe return to the surface.
The stroke starts with a twitch of the hands and a flip of the wrist, and then the ball lips out of the cup or skitters wide of the hole.
I saw him play plenty of times, but carry only a fragmented memory of him in action: rounded shoulders, and that thick face tilting while the finish of his big, left-side stroke starts him up the baseline, his gaze fixed on the rising (and often departing) ball.
These quantifications were performed in three evenly spaced (400 μM) brain sections on the side ipsilateral to stroke, starting at 0.7 mm anterior to Bregma.
Compared with the BMI reference range of 22.5-24.9, we noted greater hazard ratios for death from CHD and ischaemic stroke, starting at range 25.0-27.4 (1.14, 1.04 to 1.24, for CHD; 1.21, 1.07 to 1.37, for ischaemic stroke).
After the deal with RCA, The Strokes started working with Gil Norton, who had produced recordings for alternative rock group Pixies.
In the second scene, the strokes start slow, filling in the desk and dresser around the bedroom, creating suspense.
