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Type of artery
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coronary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES coronary artery coronary thrombosis COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN artery ▪ Underlying obstructive coronary artery disease was not excluded by angiography. ▪ These substances can contribute to plaque buildup ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coronary \Cor"o*na*ry\, n. A small bone in the foot of a horse. Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis , also used informally to mean heart attack .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Pertaining to a crown or garland. 2 (context anatomy English) Encircling something (like a crown), especially with regard to the artery or veins of the heart. n. 1 A coronary thrombosis or heart attack. 2 A small bone in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart); "coronary arteries"
Usage examples of coronary.
At the same time the cocaine began to diffuse out of the coronary vessels into the extracellular fluid, bathing the hardworking heart muscle fibers.
Assisting at his first coronary bypass, helping to clamp off and excise the saphenous vein from the meat-thick thigh and substitute it for the fouled canal-locks around the heart, Kraft felt only the placid terror of arrival.
When this dose hits your heart it will cause the coronary arteries to severely constrict, triggering what doctors would technically term a myocardial infarction or coronary occlusion, also known as a heart attack of the most devastating kind.
He explained about vasoconstriction of the coronary vessels, something like that brought about by a lifetime of gorging on butter, or a thrombosis.
Milton proposed to treat the problem with a combination of beta-blocking agents to decrease the work of the heart and slow the pulse rate, and vasodilators designed to increase coronary circulation.
Lowell on several occasions and had reviewed the coronary arteriograms done by Mr.
He had an infected mitral valve from God knows what, crappy coronaries, and an ejection fraction less than twenty percent.
All overweight, out of condition, ripe to drop dead from coronaries at any moment.
But then, perhaps patients felt the same way when they passed by hospital doors with names like Coronary Care Unit and Blood Bank on them.
Weak heart, coronary thrombosis, high blood pressure, chronic bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis all the rest of it.
If angina pectoris (chest pain associated with coronary heart disease) is the problem, you could easily combine the directions for relieving pain with the ones intended to thwart heart attacks.
The cardiac monitor showed another coronary event, but Ravi Nara seemed to think obstructive hydrocephalus had finally occurred.
The map had routed him out of this pressed tunnel through the inferior vena cava to the right atrium and thence through the right ventricle, the pulmonary arteries, through the valves, to the lungs, the pulmonary veins, crossover to the left side of the heart (left atrium, left ventricle), the aorta--bypassing the three coronary arteries above the aortic valves--and down over the arch of the aorta--bypassing the carotid and other arteries--to the celiac trunk, where the arteries split in a confusing array: the gastroduodenal to the stomach, the hepatic to the liver, the splenic to the spleen.
They watched the monitor as the dye flowed into the coronary arteries.
Lennox's coronary arteries were much worse but without focal blockage.