Myocardial Infarction Definition

noun
Webster's New World

(cardiology, pathology) Necrosis of heart muscle caused by an interruption to the supply of blood to the heart, often as a result of coronary thrombosis.

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myocardial infarction

Origin of Myocardial Infarction

  • From Late Latin infarctus + French myocarde < from Greek ἔμφραγμα (obstacle) του (οφ) μυοκαρδίου (heart muscle)

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