coronary failure

1. 1.

   inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

   Synonymsheart failure

   Broaderheart diseasefailure

   Narrowercongestive heart failureheart attack

Questions about coronary failure

What does coronary failure mean?

coronary failure means "inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions".

What is another word for coronary failure?

Close synonyms include heart failure. 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 failure a common word?

coronary failure 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.