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Meaning of heart attack

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

heart attack

noun

Definitions

  1. An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.

    Synonyms:myocardial infarction

  2. Death or failure.

    Example: My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart%20attack

Related words

myocardial infarctionmyocardial infarctcoronary thrombosiscardiac arrestmyocardial ischaemiaheart failurecoronarycoronary heart disease