heart attack
damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
Origin of heart attack
1- Compare coronary thrombosis.
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How to use heart attack in a sentence
He has had two heart attacks, one of them laying him up for eight months.
Football Great Bob Suffridge Wanders Through the End Zone of Life | Paul Hemphill | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen Dempsey fought, people died from heart attacks listening on the radio.
The main ingredient was ephedra, which was shortly after taken off the market for causing heart attacks.
The link between stress and heart attacks is something even your great-grandmother knew about.
Can Being With Your Family on Thanksgiving Actually Kill You? | Kent Sepkowitz | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe older group smoked more, had more strokes and heart attacks and in all ways was inferior, resulting in a skewing of the data.
And isn't it great that your father has no more heart attacks?
The Little Grey House | Marion Ames TaggartHe wa'n't very well, he said, subject to some kind of heart attacks, and had come to the Old Home for rest.
The Depot Master | Joseph C. LincolnSnead might turn out to be a TK as well as a hallucinator, and I wanted no more heart attacks.
Card Trick | Walter Bupp AKA Randall GarrettShe can swim like a fish, but shes had one or two little heart attacks lately, and she ought to keep quiet.
Lola | Owen DavisMy mother, who had suffered from heart attacks during a great part of her life, died at 65.
Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 | Olga Metchnikoff
British Dictionary definitions for heart attack
any sudden severe instance of abnormal heart functioning, esp coronary thrombosis
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Scientific definitions for heart attack
Necrosis of a region of the heart muscle caused by an interruption in the supply of blood to the heart, usually as a result of occlusion of a coronary artery resulting from coronary artery disease. Symptoms typically include sudden, crushing chest pain, nausea, and sweating. Characteristic changes in the electrocardiogram are used to diagnose heart attacks. Also called myocardial infarction
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Cultural definitions for heart attack
An episode of heart failure or the stopping of normal heart function; a coronary thrombosis. Symptoms of a heart attack include pain and pressure in the chest, which often spread to the shoulder, arm, and neck. Today, physicians tend to define heart attack in terms of muscle damage to the heart caused by oxygen deprivation.
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