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infarction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈfɑɹk.ʃən/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪnˈfɑːk.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• ĭnfärkʹshən

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin infarctiō, equivalent to infarct + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process which causes an infarct.
2. (countable, uncountable) An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).
   • Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared. 2016 March 3, “Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • 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. 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:

Forms

Deriveds

periinfarction · reinfarction · microinfarction · myocardial infarction · postinfarction · pseudoinfarction · cryoinfarction · infarctional · macroinfarction · cerebral infarction · preinfarction

Relateds

infarctive

Translations (5)

fr infarctus (the process which causes an infarct) · pl zawał (the process which causes an infarct) · ko 경색 형성 (the process which causes an infarct) · hu érelzáródás okozta szövetelhalás (the process which causes an infarct) · de Infarzierung (the process which causes an infarct)