infarction

See also: infraction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin infarctiō, equivalent to infarct +‎ -ion.

Noun

infarction (countable and uncountable, plural infarctions)

1. (pathology) The process which causes an infarct.
2. (pathology) An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).^[1]
   • 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:

     But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.

   • 2016 March 3, “Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.

Derived terms

• cerebral infarction
• cryoinfarction
• infarctional
• macroinfarction
• microinfarction
• myocardial infarction
• postinfarction
• preinfarction
• pseudoinfarction
• reinfarction

Related terms

• infarctive

Translations

the process which causes an infarct

• French: infarctus (fr) m
• German: Infarzierung f
• Hungarian: érelzáródás okozta szövetelhalás
• Korean: 경색 형성 (gyeongsaek hyeongseong)
• Polish: zawał (pl) m

infarct — see infarct

Anagrams

• infraction