coronary
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the human heart, with respect to health.
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Medicine/Medical.
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pertaining to the arteries that supply the heart tissues and originate in the root of the aorta.
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encircling like a crown, as certain blood vessels.
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of or like a crown.
adjective
noun
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The word coronary is often used by itself in an informal sense to refer to a heart attack or coronary thrombosis.
Other Word Forms
- postcoronary adjective
Etymology
Origin of coronary
1600–10; < Latin corōnārius, equivalent to corōn ( a ) crown + -ārius -ary; in reference to the heart, extended from coronary artery, coronary vein, etc.
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This increase was largely due to more reported "cardiac events," including chest pain, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure.
From Science Daily
It includes coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke, and high cholesterol is one of its major risk factors.
From Science Daily
And even for executive physicals - which cater to busy professionals and include a host of additional tests - he says it is still uncommon for that imaging to come back "perfectly normal" with no coronary calcification.
From BBC
To examine how well current tools perform, the researchers conducted a retrospective review of 474 patients younger than 66 who had no known coronary artery disease.
From Science Daily
It is one of two units in the same building that have been owned by Ozzy—who died in July from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease at the age of 76—and his family.
From MarketWatch
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