coronary insufficiency

1. 1.

   inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris

   Synonymscardiac insufficiency

   Broaderinsufficiency

Questions about coronary insufficiency

What does coronary insufficiency mean?

coronary insufficiency means "inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris".

What is another word for coronary insufficiency?

Close synonyms include cardiac insufficiency. 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 insufficiency a common word?

coronary insufficiency 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.