Infarction
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- 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.
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- 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