infarct

1. 1.

   localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply

   Synonymsinfarction

   Broaderpathology

   Narrowermyocardial infarction

Other forms of infarct

plural

infarcts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about infarct

What does infarct mean?

infarct means "localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply".

How many syllables are in infarct?

infarct has 2 syllables: in-farct. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for infarct?

Close synonyms include infarction. 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 infarct a common word?

infarct 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.