myocardial infarction

1. 1.

   destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle

   Synonymsmyocardial infarctMI

   Broaderinfarct

   Part ofheart attack

Questions about myocardial infarction

What does myocardial infarction mean?

myocardial infarction means "destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle".

What is another word for myocardial infarction?

Close synonyms include myocardial infarct, MI. 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 myocardial infarction a common word?

myocardial infarction 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.