coronary artery disease

1. 1.

   a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries

   Synonymsatherosclerosis

   Broaderarteriosclerosis

Questions about coronary artery disease

What does coronary artery disease mean?

coronary artery disease means "a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries".

What is another word for coronary artery disease?

Close synonyms include atherosclerosis. 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.