I had a myocardial infarction.
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Infarction
//ɪnˈfɑːk.ʃən//
Synonyms for "infarction" (33 found)
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5 translations across 5 languages.
French
1 entries- infarctus noun (the process which causes an infarct)
German
1 entries- Infarzierung noun (the process which causes an infarct)
Hungarian
1 entries- érelzáródás okozta szövetelhalás noun (the process which causes an infarct)
Korean
1 entries- 경색 형성 noun (the process which causes an infarct)
Polish
1 entries- zawał noun (the process which causes an infarct)
Sample sentences
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A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction, happens when a part of the heart muscle doesn’t get enough blood.
Source: tatoeba (11045641)
But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
Source: wiktionary
Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.
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