infarct

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 and divides as in-farct under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.