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Coronary   /kˈɔrənˌɛri/   Listen
Coronary

adjective
1.
Surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart).
noun
1.
Obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus).  Synonym: coronary thrombosis.



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"Coronary" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself. There remains nothing that I have heard of his putting gardening actually into practice himself; but some of his last works being observations on several scarce plants mentioned in Scripture; and of Garlands and Coronary garden plants and flowers, 'tis reasonable to suppose he did; and the love he had so early and late discovered toward it, was completed in the delightful practice thereof." He further says, " his elaborate ...
— On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, • Samuel Felton

... affected member—are, of course, unfit for service and as a rule are not difficult of diagnosis. For instance, a fracture of the second phalanx would cause much more lameness than an injury to the lateral ligament of the coronary joint wherein there had occurred only a slight sprain, and though crepitation is not recognized, the diagnostician is not justified in excluding the possibility of fracture, if the lameness seems disproportionate to the apparent ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

... case of the late much lamented John Hunter, and from the appearances after death, the case seems to have been of this kind, complicated with vertigo and consequent affection of the stomach. The remote cause seems to have arisen from ossifications of the coronary arteries; and the immediate cause of his death from fixed spasm of the heart. Other histories and dissections are still required to put this matter out of doubt; as it is possible, that either a fixed spasm of the diaphragm, or of the heart, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



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