a condition of interrupted blood flow to the heart due to a blood clot in a coronary artery, usually as a consequence of atherosclerosis: characterized by intense pain
Sometimes shortened to: coronary. Compare myocardial infarction
coronary thrombosis in American English
US
the formation of a clot in a branch of either of the coronary arteries, resulting in obstruction of that artery
: also called coronary occlusion
Word origin
coined (1912) by J. B. Herrick (1861-1954), U.S. physician
Examples of 'coronary thrombosis' in a sentence
coronary thrombosis
She had lost Sid to a coronary thrombosis, at home, only three months ago, Sid sixty-three when he died.
Elmore Leonard WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE (2002)