Infarction

 
1.      Sudden insufficiency of arterial or venous blood supply due to emboli, thrombi, vascular torsion, or pressure that produces a macroscopic area of necrosis; the heart, brain, spleen, kidney, intestine, lung, and testes are likely to be affected, as are tumors, especially of the ovary or uterus.
2.      Syn: infarct.
 
anterior myocardial infarction
anteroinferior myocardial infarction
anterolateral myocardial infarction
anteroseptal myocardial infarction
cardiac infarction
diaphragmatic myocardial infarction
hepatic infarction
inferior myocardial infarction
inferolateral myocardial infarction
lateral myocardial infarction
myocardial infarction
myocardial infarction in dumbbell form
nontransmural myocardial infarction
posterior myocardial infarction
silent myocardial infarction
subendocardial myocardial infarction
through-and-through myocardial infarction
transmural myocardial infarction
watershed infarction