different between ischemia vs infarction

ischemia

English

Etymology

From New Latin ischaemia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ískhaimos, stoppage of blood flow), from ?????? (ískh?), ?????? (iskhán?, to hold back, restrain; to stay, stop) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (to hold; to overcome)) + ???? (haîma, blood) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *say- (thick or viscous liquid)).

The plural form ischemiae is also from New Latin ischaemiae.

Pronunciation

  • Singular:
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ski?.mi.?/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /??ski.mi.?/
    • Rhymes: -i?mi?
    • Hyphenation: isch?e?mia
  • Plural (ischemiae):
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ski?.mi.a?/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /??ski.mi.a?/
    • Hyphenation: isch?e?mi?ae

Noun

ischemia (countable and uncountable, plural ischemias or ischemiae) (American spelling)

  1. (cardiology, pathology) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).

Alternative forms

  • ischaemia (Britain)
  • ischæmia (Britain, obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

  • ischemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

ischemia f (plural ischemie)

  1. (pathology) ischaemia, ischemia

Derived terms

  • ischemico

ischemia From the web:

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infarction

English

Etymology

infarct +? -ion

Noun

infarction (countable and uncountable, plural infarctions)

  1. (pathology) The process which causes an infarct.
  2. (pathology) An infarct.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • infarctive

Translations

Anagrams

  • infraction

infarction From the web:

  • what infarction mean
  • infarction what does this mean
  • what's myocardial infarction
  • what is infarction in medical terms
  • what is myocardial infarction
  • what is infarction in brain
  • what causes infarction
  • what myocardial infarction mean
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