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Coronary adj.

Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." "The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus."

(Anat.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coronary" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

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