coronary-artery disease

Questions about coronary-artery disease

What does coronary-artery disease mean?

coronary-artery disease means "sclerosis of the arterial walls".

What is another word for coronary-artery disease?

Close synonyms include arteriosclerosis, arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coronary-artery disease a common word?

coronary-artery disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.