myocardial infarct
- noun
- /ˌmaɪəʊˈkɑːrdɪəl ˈɪnfɑːrkt/
- Specialized
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infarto de miocardio
- She recognized the symptoms of a myocardial infarct and immediately called for emergency assistance.
Examples
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After suffering a myocardial infarct, he was advised to make significant lifestyle changes to improve his heart health.
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When plaques get large enough, they produce clotting, rupture, myocardial infarct or stroke.
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I wasn't going to send fingernail clippings to trace evidence, for example, if the decedent was an eighty-year-old man who died of a myocardial infarct while cutting his grass.
Fiction book (1990) -
The doctor explained that a myocardial infarct can lead to serious complications if not treated promptly.
Synonyms
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2.0
A sudden serious illness when blood cannot reach the heart
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Damage to the heart muscle when a blood vessel is blocked, called a heart attack
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Damage to the heart muscle that happens when blood flow is blocked, a heart attack
Surface Forms
Morphology
Given knowledge of 'myocardial' (pertaining to heart muscle) and 'infarct' (localized tissue death), the compound denotes tissue death of the heart muscle and this meaning is directly compositional. Although medical, the morpheme combination follows straightforward biomedical naming patterns that are cross-linguistically familiar, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the full meaning.
Etymology
The medical term myocardial infarct has two parts: myocardial meaning 'heart muscle' and infarct meaning 'an area that has died because blood flow was blocked'. So it names when part of the heart muscle dies from a blocked blood flow, which we call a 'heart attack'.