Atherosclerosis reduces the inner diameter of arteries.
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Atherosclerosis
//ˌæθɚoʊskləˈɹoʊsəs//
Synonyms for "atherosclerosis" (102 found)
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29 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَصَلُّب عَصِيدِيّ noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Bulgarian
1 entries- атеросклеро́за noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Catalan
1 entries- aterosclerosi noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 動脈粥樣硬化 /动脉粥样硬化 noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Czech
1 entries- ateroskleróza noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Danish
1 entries- aterosklerose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Dutch
1 entries- atherosclerose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Finnish
3 entries- ateroskleroosi noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
- valtimotauti noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
- verisuonten kalkkeutuminen noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
French
1 entries- athérosclérose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Icelandic
1 entries- fituhrörnun slagæða noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Italian
1 entries- aterosclerosi noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Kazakh
1 entries- атеросклероз noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- атеросклероз noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Latvian
1 entries- ateroskleroze noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- aterosklerose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- aterosklerose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Polish
2 entries- arterioskleroza noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
- miażdżyca noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Portuguese
1 entries- aterosclerose noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Russian
1 entries- атеросклероз noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Spanish
1 entries- ateroesclerosis noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Swedish
3 entries- ateroskleros noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
- åderförfettning noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
- åderförkalkning noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Tamil
1 entries- தமனிக்கூழ்மைத் தடிப்பு noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Turkish
1 entries- ateroskleroz noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
Ukrainian
1 entries- атеросклеро́з noun (clogging or hardening of blood vessels caused by plaques)
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Researchers at Columbia and Harvard Universities are working on a unique new way to treat atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries that can lead to heart attack or stroke.
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The researchers found that, although a large proportion of their test subjects didn’t have the traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis, they did show discrete signs, such as a greater waist circumference, and visceral fat covering the internal organs within the chest and abdomen.
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Near-synonym: ASCVD
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