Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The formation or development of an infarct.
- n. An infarct.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of stuffing or filling; the condition of being stuffed; the substance with which something is stuffed or filled. Formerly applied in pathology to a variety of morbid local conditions; now usually restricted to certain conditions caused by a local fault in the circulation.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The act of stuffing or filling the formation of an infarct; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.
- n. An infarct{2}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply
Examples
“Their serum cholesterol levels are five times higher than in healthy persons, and severe atherosclerosis and coronary infarction is seen already in adolescence, or even earlier.”
“Coronary infarction is a major cause of death in most industrialized countries.”
“That’s very important, because one of the major problems for people suffering a myocardial infarction is that the heart is damaged and doesn’t pump blood nearly as well.”
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“A 2006 analysis of 138 randomized trials and almost 150 000 participants showed that selective COX-2 inhibitors are associated with a moderately increased risk of vascular events, mainly due to a twofold increased risk of myocardial infarction, that is heart attacks, and also that high-dose regimens of some traditional NSAIDs such as diclofenac and ibuprofen are associated with a similar increase in risk of vascular events.”
“AMI: acute myocardial infarction, aka heart attack.”
“The AMI, acute myocardial infarction, which is a doctor's big word so they can charge you more money -- means a heart attack.”
“This thrombus can entirely occlude a blood vessel, cutting off the blood supply and causing a heart attack, also known as an infarction.”
“So I had to risk myocardial infarction, which is even worse than what it sounds like, by digging out with a plastic shovel only slightly bigger than the spoon I use to eat my morning cereal.”
“A myocardial infarction occurs when a blockage forms in one of the arteries that supplies oxygenated blood to the heart muscle.”
“Stemi is short for segment elevation myocardial infarction, which is a type of heart attack that involves a prolonged period of blocked blood supply.”
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