Log in or Sign up
  1. infarct love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An area of tissue that undergoes necrosis as a result of obstruction of local blood supply, as by a thrombus or embolus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, that which stuffs; the substance of an infarction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology an area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) An obstruction or embolus in one of the blood vessels.
  2. n. (Med.) The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; also, the localized necrotic (dead) tissue resulting from such obstruction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply

Etymologies

  1. From Latin īnfarctus, past participle of īnfarcīre, to cram : in-, in; see in-2 + farcīre, to stuff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘infarct’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for infarct.

‘infarct’ has been looked up 1746 times, loved by 1 person, added to 12 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 12.