heart attack

1. 1.

   a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function

   Broaderattackheart failure

   Partscoronary thrombosismyocardial infarction

Questions about heart attack

What does heart attack mean?

heart attack means "a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function".

Is heart attack a common word?

heart attack 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.