ischemia

1. 1.

   local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism

   Synonymsischaemia

   Broaderanemia

   Narrowerischemic stroketransient ischemic attack

Other forms of ischemia

plural

ischemias·

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 ischemia

What does ischemia mean?

ischemia means "local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism".

How many syllables are in ischemia?

ischemia has 4 syllables: is-chem-i-a. The stress falls on "chem". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈskɛˌmiə/.

What is another word for ischemia?

Close synonyms include ischaemia. 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 ischemia a common word?

ischemia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ischemia?

1 word rhymes with ischemia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.