coronary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cor·o·na·ry1 /ˈkɒrənəri $ ˈkɔːrəneri, ˈkɑː-/ adjective MHBrelating to the heart 冠状动脉的；心脏的，与心脏有关的 SYN cardiac coronary disease 心脏病
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coronary• Late opening of an occluded coronary artery may also have some beneficial effect.• That includes 459,841 from coronary heart disease and 158,448 from stroke.• Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.• Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25%.• All the senior partners in his law firms had flirtations with coronary incidents except him.• But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention.• A coronary thrombosis, the doctor had called it.• After some time he died, coronary thrombosis.coronary2 noun (plural coronaries) [countable] informal if someone has a coronary, their heart suddenly stops working because the flow of blood to it has been blocked by a small piece of solid blood 冠状动脉病 SYN heart attackExamples from the Corpus
coronary• When Wall Street has indigestion, the world's market economies are checked out for coronaries.• They are a hell-broth of ideas to provoke coronaries and hair loss in middle-aged civil servants.• Two of her brothers had died with coronaries.Origin coronary1 (1600-1700) Latin coronarius “like a crown”, from corona ( → CROWN1); because the blood-tubes coming out of the top of the heart look like a crowncor·o·na·ry1 adjectivecoronary2 nounChineseSyllable
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coronary
cor‧o‧na‧ry1 /ˈkɒrənəri $ ˈkɔːrəneri, ˈkɑː-/ 
adjective
SYN cardiac:
coronary disease
coronary2 noun (plural coronaries) [countable] informal
if someone has a coronary, their heart suddenly stops working because the flow of blood to it has been blocked by a small piece of solid blood
SYN heart attack
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adjective Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: coronarius 'like a crown', from corona ( ⇨ crown1); because the blood-tubes coming out of the top of the heart look like a crown
relating to the heart Language: Latin
Origin: coronarius 'like a crown', from corona ( ⇨ crown1); because the blood-tubes coming out of the top of the heart look like a crown
SYN cardiac:
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noun (plural coronaries) [countable] informalif someone has a coronary, their heart suddenly stops working because the flow of blood to it has been blocked by a small piece of solid blood
SYN heart attack