heart attack
Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Noun
heart attack (plural heart attacks)
- (cardiology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
- Synonyms: myocardial infarction
- (figuratively) Death or failure.
- My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.
- French: crise cardiaque, infarctus du myocarde
- German: Myokardinfarkt, akuter Myokardinfarkt, Herzinfarkt
- Italian: infarto del miocardio
- Portuguese: ataque cardíaco, infarto do miocárdio
- Russian: серде́чный при́ступ
- Spanish: infarto agudo de miocardio, ataque al corazón
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003