infarct

English

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infarct

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfarctus, tu-stem derivation of īnfarciō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɑɹkt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

infarct (plural infarcts)

1. (pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
   • 2015 December 10, “The Long-Term Consumption of Ginseng Extract Reduces the Susceptibility of Intermediate-Aged Hearts to Acute Ischemia Reperfusion Injury”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     After RSE treatment for 90 days, there was no comparable fibrosis in noninfarct and infarct regions.

Derived terms

• infarcted
• infarction
• infarctive
• macroinfarct
• microinfarct
• multi-infarct
• myocardial infarct
• noninfarct
• periinfarct
• postinfarct

Related terms

• infarce

Translations

area of dead tissue

Albanian: infarkti Azerbaijani: infarkt Bulgarian: инфа́ркт m (infárkt) Catalan: infart m Chinese: Mandarin: 梗塞 (zh) (gěngsè) Czech: infarkt (cs) m Dutch: infarct (nl) n Estonian: infarkt Finnish: infarkti (fi), kudoskuolio French: infarctus (fr) Galician: infarto (gl) m German: Infarkt (de) m Greek: εμβολή (el) f (emvolí) Hebrew: אוטם m Hungarian: infarktus (hu), (érelzáródás miatt) elhalt szövet Ido: infarkto (io) Indonesian: infarsi, infark Italian: infarto (it) Japanese: 梗塞 (ja) (こうそく, kōsoku) Korean: 경색 (ko) (gyeongsaek) Norwegian: infarkt Persian: اَنفارکتوس (fa) (anfârktus) Polish: zawał (pl) m Portuguese: infarto (pt), enfarte (pt) Russian: инфа́ркт (ru) m (infárkt) Spanish: infarto (es) Swedish: infarkt (sv) Turkish: enfarktüs (tr) Ukrainian: інфа́ркт m (infárkt) Urdu: احتِشاء Vietnamese: nhồi máu

Anagrams

• frantic, infract

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfarctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɑrkt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧farct

Noun

infarct n (plural infarcten, diminutive infarctje n)

1. (pathology) infarct

Derived terms

• darminfarct
• hartinfarct
• herseninfarct
• longinfarct
• myocardinfarct
• nierinfarct
• ooginfarct
• verkeersinfarct

Descendants

• → Indonesian: infark

Further reading

• “infarct” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• infarct on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French infarctus or German Infarkt.

Noun

infarct n (plural infarcte)

1. heart attack

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	infarct	infarctul		infarcte	infarctele
genitive-dative	infarct	infarctului		infarcte	infarctelor
vocative	infarctule			infarctelor