coronary insufficiency

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noun Pathology.

inadequate blood flow to the heart muscle.

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Words nearby coronary insufficiency

coronary-care unit, coronary cataract, coronary cushion, coronary failure, coronary heart disease, coronary insufficiency, coronary occlusion, coronary sinus, coronary sulcus, coronary thrombosis, coronary valve

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How to use coronary insufficiency in a sentence

His face turned red from the effort and for a moment I thought he might be having a coronary.
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In 2005, DOC paid $37,244 for one coronary bypass surgery and $32,897 for one kidney transplant surgery.
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Further studies found that these individuals had higher BMIs and were more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
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Dr. Ornish became famous in the 1990s for showing reversal of coronary artery disease using a very low-fat, near-vegetarian diet.
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He was found at autopsy to have severe hardening of his coronary arteries.
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An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
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The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
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They too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
I believe that a few of the prisoners succumbed to disease and died because they had an insufficiency of nourishing food.
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It was this insufficiency of rations which wrought the fatal dnouement of the glorious enterprise of Burke and Wills.
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British Dictionary definitions for coronary insufficiency

coronary insufficiency

noun

inadequate circulation of blood through the coronary arteries, characterized by attacks of angina pectoris

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Medical definitions for coronary insufficiency

coronary insufficiency

Inadequate coronary circulation leading to anginal pain.