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Infarction

Noun CEFR B2
ɪnˈfɑːk.ʃən

Definitions

  1. The process which causes an infarct.
  2. An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).

Equivalents

Françaisinfarctus
日本語梗塞
6 more languages
العربيةالإنتهاك
Ελληνικάέμφραγμα
Latinainfarctus
Polskizawał
Українськаінфаркт

Examples

But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.”
Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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