Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being the coronary arteries or coronary veins.
- adj. Of or relating to the heart.
- n. A coronary thrombosis or heart attack.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a crown or to some part likened to a crown; resembling a crown; encircling; wreathing about.
- Of the knee-joint, one of the fibrous bands connecting the semilunar cartilages with the general capsular investment of the joint.
- Of the elbow, the orbicular ligament which encircles the head of the radius.
- n. The small pastern of a horse's foot.
- n. A plant bearing coronate flowers.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to a crown.
- adj. Encircling something (like a crown), especially with regard to the arteries or veins of the heart.
- n. A coronary thrombosis or heart attack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
- adj. Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet.
- n. A small bone in the foot of a horse.
- n. Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used informally to mean heart attack.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart)
- n. obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus)
Etymologies
- Latin corōnārius, of a crown, from corōna, crown; see crown.
Examples
“Significant research into gender differences in coronary artery disease has been underway only in the past 10 years.”
“Heart catheterization is done and stent is placed in coronary artery.”
“In fact, the vast bulk of expense to the medical system today, in coronary disease and type II diabetes, is caused by people making bad personal decisions over a long period of time.”
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“Silent myocardial ischaemia and long-term coronary artery disease outcomes in apparently healthy people from families with early-onset ischaemic heart disease”
“The Food and Drug Administration approved Trasylol for use in coronary bypass surgery patients in 1993.”
“The label now warns about kidney problems and says that Trasylol should be used only in coronary bypass surgery patients who are at an increased risk for excessive bleeding.”
“ The word coronary is often used by itself in an informal sense to refer to a heart attack or coronary thrombosis.”
“More cabbage, fewer CABGs," says Boston University professor and health blogger Austin Frakt, using the acronym for coronary artery bypass grafts.”
“This sequence of events was similar to the gradual buildup of lime and rust in pipes, and the terms coronary occlusion, myocardial infarction and heart attack are still often used as synonyms.”
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“When heart arteries begin to get blocked its called coronary artery disease, and it is caused when atherosclerotic plaque builds up on the walls of the arteries.”
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