Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the coronary arteries or coronary veins.
- adjective Of or relating to the heart.
- noun A coronary thrombosis or heart attack.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a crown or to some part likened to a crown; resembling a crown; encircling; wreathing about.
- Of the knee-joint, one of the fibrous bands connecting the semilunar cartilages with the general capsular investment of the joint.
- Of the elbow, the orbicular ligament which encircles the head of the radius.
- noun The small pastern of a horse's foot.
- noun A plant bearing coronate flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
- adjective (Anat.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet.
- noun A small bone in the foot of a horse.
- noun Informal shortening of
coronary thrombosis , also used informally to meanheart attack .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Pertaining to a
crown . - adjective anatomy Encircling something (like a crown), especially with regard to the
arteries orveins of theheart . - noun A
coronary thrombosis orheart attack . - noun A small
bone in thefoot of ahorse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart)
- noun obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Heart catheterization is done and stent is placed in coronary artery.
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In fact, the vast bulk of expense to the medical system today, in coronary disease and type II diabetes, is caused by people making bad personal decisions over a long period of time.
The Need for Savings, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Significant research into gender differences in coronary artery disease has been underway only in the past 10 years.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Gender Differences in Heart Disease: Nation's No. 1 Killer Kills Differently M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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Significant research into gender differences in coronary artery disease has been underway only in the past 10 years.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Gender Differences in Heart Disease: Nation's No. 1 Killer Kills Differently M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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Silent myocardial ischaemia and long-term coronary artery disease outcomes in apparently healthy people from families with early-onset ischaemic heart disease
Low Readership of Nutrition Labels Ann Lukits 2011
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Significant research into gender differences in coronary artery disease has been underway only in the past 10 years.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Gender Differences in Heart Disease: Nation's No. 1 Killer Kills Differently M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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The label now warns about kidney problems and says that Trasylol should be used only in coronary bypass surgery patients who are at an increased risk for excessive bleeding.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved Trasylol for use in coronary bypass surgery patients in 1993.
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The word coronary is often used by itself in an informal sense to refer to a heart attack or coronary thrombosis.
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"More cabbage, fewer CABGs," says Boston University professor and health blogger Austin Frakt, using the acronym for coronary artery bypass grafts.
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