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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coronary
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 in the coronary arteries.
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
▪ For example, the beat can be distorted if the coronary arteries are not wired correctly inside the heart.
▪ This causes a narrowing of the channel and diminishes the amount of blood that the coronary arteries can carry.
▪ An increase in insulin levels in the blood decreases the normal relaxation of the coronary arteries.
▪ The stuff that furs up coronary arteries must be one of the most lethal substances known to man.
▪ Contracting arrangements Editor, - B Olsburgh raises the question of rational distribution of health care resources in relation to coronary artery bypass grafting.
bypass
▪ Day had a coronary bypass, and he suffered from breathing problems, often evident when he was on the air.
▪ Despite two coronary bypasses, he's now strangled with anoxic pain, face grey, clutching his throat.
care
▪ Mr Donnelly underwent emergency coronary care treatment in hospital last year.
▪ From these studies we've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who doesn't.
▪ This is standard now in many coronary care units and is reliable provided staff are competent with the technique.
▪ Not just in coronary care - there are other examples.
▪ The next year she was admitted to the coronary care unit and myocardial infarction was excluded.
▪ However, on a coronary care unit with adequate, trained and qualified staff this is not usually a problem.
▪ Once the patient has passed through casualty and becomes a coronary care admission the pain has usually eased significantly.
▪ Most people are reassured in the coronary care unit.
disease
▪ Much has been learnt about the natural history of coronary disease since 1945.
▪ Such survivors, after all, form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease.
▪ Patients who suffer a myocardial infarction may not have widely distributed coronary disease.
▪ Underlying structural cardiac abnormalities, most commonly obstructive coronary disease, are present in the vast majority of patients.
heart
▪ South Tees workplace health spokeswoman Anne Newnam said the charter aimed to reduce the death rates from coronary heart disease.
▪ For coronary heart disease alone, the death rate in that same 10-year period declined by 26 percent.
▪ That diet is associated with the group's continuing lower coronary heart disease rates, despite higher blood pressure.
▪ Total mortality and each of the outcomes of coronary heart disease increased as severity of periodontal disease increased.
▪ Populations at risk for the development of large bowel cancer are also generally at higher risk for development of coronary heart disease.
▪ Prevention of coronary heart disease-propaganda, promises, problems and prospects.
▪ It is often claimed that high blood cholesterol levels promote atherosclerosis and consequent coronary heart disease.
▪ The essential question is whether the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease is causal.
thrombosis
▪ After some time he died, coronary thrombosis.
▪ Some of his experiments suggested that high levels of processed sugar could lead to coronary thrombosis, diabetes and heart disease.
▪ A coronary thrombosis, the doctor had called it.
▪ He gave up his business interests in 1958, when he was partially incapacitated by coronary thrombosis.
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▪ A coronary thrombosis, the doctor had called it.
▪ After some time he died, coronary thrombosis.
▪ All the senior partners in his law firms had flirtations with coronary incidents except him.
▪ But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention.
▪ Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25%.
▪ Late opening of an occluded coronary artery may also have some beneficial effect.
▪ That includes 459,841 from coronary heart disease and 158,448 from stroke.
▪ Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.
II.noun
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▪ They are a hell-broth of ideas to provoke coronaries and hair loss in middle-aged civil servants.
▪ Two of her brothers had died with coronaries.
▪ When Wall Street has indigestion, the world's market economies are checked out for coronaries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coronary

Coronary \Cor"o*na*ry\ (k?r"?-n?-r?), a. [L. coronarius: cf. F. coronaire.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. ``Coronary thorns.''
    --Bp. Pearson.

    The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. (Anat.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

Coronary

Coronary \Cor"o*na*ry\, n.

  1. A small bone in the foot of a horse.

  2. Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used informally to mean heart attack.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coronary

c.1600, "suitable for garlands," from Latin coronarius "of a crown," from corona "crown" (see crown (n.)). Anatomical use is 1670s for structure of blood vessels that surround the heart like a crown. Short for coronary thrombosis it dates from 1955. Coronary artery is recorded from 1741.

Wiktionary
coronary

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 the foot of a horse.

WordNet
coronary

adj. surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart); "coronary arteries"

coronary

n. obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) [syn: coronary thrombosis]

Wikipedia
Coronary

Coronary may, as shorthand in English, be used to mean:

  • Coronary circulation, the system of arteries and veins in mammals

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.