Definition of Coronary occlusion

1. Noun. Occlusion of a coronary artery caused either by progressive atherosclerosis or by a blood clot.


Medical Definition of Coronary occlusion

1. Blockage of a coronary vessel, usually by thrombosis or atheroma, often leading to myocardial infarction. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coronary Occlusion

coronary care unit
coronary care units
coronary cataract
coronary circulation
coronary disease
coronary endarterectomy
coronary failure
coronary groove
coronary heart disease
coronary insufficiency
coronary ligament of knee
coronary ligament of liver
coronary nodal rhythm
coronary node
coronary occlusion (current term)
coronary ostial stenosis
coronary perfusion pressure
coronary plexus
coronary sinus
coronary sinus rhythm
coronary steal
coronary sulcus
coronary tendon
coronary thrombosis
coronary valve
coronary vasospasm
coronary vein
coronary vessel anomalies
coronary vessels

Literary usage of Coronary occlusion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Many investigators employ the two- stage coronary occlusion method developed ... The technique involves a partial coronary occlusion, followed by complete ..."

2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1920)
"The relation of coronary occlusion to ventricular paroxysmal tachycardia is a point of special interest in regard to the cases that have been reported and ..."

3. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1922)
"Although Baccelli has described a condition with Jj this name, the symptoms are so similar to those of coronary occlusion that it x is no angina abdominalis ..."

4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"FAULKNER, JM, MARBLE, HC and WHITE, PD: The differential diagnosis of coronary occlusion and of cholelithiasis, Jour. Am. Med. ..."

5. Modern aspects of the circulation in health and disease by Carl John Wiggers (1915)
"Pathological Physiology of coronary occlusion.—Although the existence of an anastamosis between the branches of the right and left coronary systems has been ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"With necrotic processes in the myocardium resulting from coronary occlusion, the prognosis is bad. Coronary disease is the most frequent cause of ..."

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