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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The formation or development of an infarct.
  • noun An infarct.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of stuffing or filling; the condition of being stuffed; the substance with which something is stuffed or filled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The act of stuffing or filling
  • noun An infarct{2}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology The process which causes an infarct
  • noun pathology An infarct.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply

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  • This happened to House's right leg.

    June 13, 2012