Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decrease in the blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue, or part caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, local anemia produced by vasoconstriction or by other local obstacles to the arterial flow.
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- noun pathology, cardiology
Local disturbance in bloodcirculation due tomechanical obstruction of theblood supply (vasoconstriction ,thrombosis orembolism ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In any case, in either language, I wasnt familiar with the word ischemia, it turned out to be, a localized anemia that obstructed arterial blood flow; I would find it in the dictionary much later.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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In any case, in either language, I wasnt familiar with the word ischemia, it turned out to be, a localized anemia that obstructed arterial blood flow; I would find it in the dictionary much later.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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In any case, in either language, I wasnt familiar with the word ischemia, it turned out to be, a localized anemia that obstructed arterial blood flow; I would find it in the dictionary much later.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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In any case, in either language, I wasnt familiar with the word ischemia, it turned out to be, a localized anemia that obstructed arterial blood flow; I would find it in the dictionary much later.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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The treatment failed in a Phase III study to demonstrate superiority compared with a placebo in preventing major amputation or death for patients of critical limb ischemia, which is characterized by the obstruction of arteries and decreasing blood flow to hands, legs and feet.
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Lowry et al. reported the rapid depletion of the normally significant amount of G16P2 during mouse brain ischemia.
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This condition, known as ischemia, may not result in permanent damage to the myocardium.
Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996
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This condition, known as ischemia, may not result in permanent damage to the myocardium.
Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996
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This denial of oxygen-bearing blood—called ischemia—is much the same as what happens in a heart attack.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The stoppage of blood flow that occurred in the mice, known as ischemia, is a common effect of
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