Medicine

• ictus, a sudden event such as a stroke
  Stroke
  A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
  
  , seizure
  Seizure
  An epileptic seizure, occasionally referred to as a fit, is defined as a transient symptom of "abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain". The outward effect can be as dramatic as a wild thrashing movement or as mild as a brief loss of awareness...
  
  , collapse
  Collapse (medical)
  Collapse is a sudden and often unannounced loss of postural tone , often but not necessarily accompanied by loss of consciousness.If the episode was accompanied by a loss of consciousness, the term syncope is used. The main causes are cardiac , seizures or a psychological cause...
  
  , or faint
  Syncope (medicine)
  Syncope , the medical term for fainting, is precisely defined as a transient loss of consciousness and postural tone characterized by rapid onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery due to global cerebral hypoperfusion that most often results from hypotension.Many forms of syncope are...
  
  

Music and poetry

• ictus, in music and conducting, the instant when a beat occurs
• ictus, in poetry, a way of indicating a stressed syllable
• "Ictus", a 1960s song composed by Carla Bley
  Carla Bley
  Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
  
  , American jazz composer
• ICTUS Records
  ICTUS Records
  ICTUS Records is an independent record label for avant-garde jazz artists. Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli founded it in 1976. Centazzo is an eclectic drummer, percussionist, pioneer electronicist and composer. Due to financial problems, ICTUS collapsed in 1984...
  
  , independent record label for avant-garde jazz
• Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble is a Belgian orchestra, founded by Jean-Luc Plouvierin 1994, specialising in Contemporary classical music...
  
  , Belgian orchestra specialising contemporary classical music

Religion

• ichthys
  Ichthys
  Ichthys, from Koine Greek: , is the Greek word for "fish"....
  
   (also spelled "ictus", "icthus", and "ichthus"), an early Christian religious symbol

See also

• Palaeoapterodytes ictus
  Palaeoapterodytes ictus
  Palaeoapterodytes ictus is an extinct species of penguin from the late Oligocene or early Miocene of Argentina, the only member of its genus...
  
  , an animal species of the early Miocene or late Oligocene
• Nodens Ictus
  Nodens Ictus
  Nodens Ictus formed in 1986 as an offshoot of British psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles.-History:Nodens Ictus began life in 1986 when Ozric Tentacles guitarist Ed Wynne and keyboardist Joie Hinton were asked by the promoters of the Crypt club in Deptford, South London, to produce an ambient set...
  
  , a British rock band formed in 1986