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
Last year, just before he was scheduled to testify on the legislation, he had a heart attack and stroke in the State House complex.
Maryland moves toward clear plan for paying people who were wrongly convicted | Ovetta Wiggins | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostPatients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from hospitals Heart conditions drove spike in deaths beyond those attributed to covid-19
The Big Number: During pandemic, heart surgeries plummeted by 53 percent | Linda Searing | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostHe suffered a mild heart attack and lost consciousness at times.
Super Bowl highlights: Bucs celebrate championship, Tom Brady wins MVP | Des Bieler, Mark Maske, Chuck Culpepper | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostAfter the covid vaccines, some researchers expect Moderna and BioNTech to return to their original plans for the technology, like treating more conventional ailments such as heart attacks, cancer, or rare inherited diseases.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe union representing Capitol Police officers says that 140 officers suffered injuries, including broken bones and a heart attack, during the riot.
Some police deaths are more worrisome to Fox News than others | Philip Bump | February 3, 2021 | Washington Post
Ground glass is put in food to cause internal bleeding, and nicotine concentrated by boiling can cause a heart attack.
(Police at the scene initially claimed that the asthmatic, 350-pound Garner had suffered a heart attack).
Eric Garner Was Choked to Death for Selling Loosies | Nick Gillespie | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis can lead to the very heart attack that placing the stent was trying to prevent.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Risky Heart Surgery | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was one of the highest-paid fashion photographers of the 1950s, and he committed suicide by inducing a heart attack.
Vogue Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld: Secrets of a Fashion Legend | Tim Teeman | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 71-year-old had not taken his heart medication, and he suffered a heart attack.
Vogue Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld: Secrets of a Fashion Legend | Tim Teeman | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI have hopes, high hopes, that might have brought on the real heart attack he had the next day.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. SherredThe doctor told us he had suffered a massive heart attack and knew he wouldn't live.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonThe phone rang in the house and the lady came out to tell us my father had been taken to the hospital with a heart attack.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonDid the prisoner show any symptoms of illness before his heart attack?
The Red Seal | Natalie Sumner LincolnShe must have suffered a heart-attack and fallen as she tried to cross the room alone.
Destiny | Charles Neville Buck
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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