heart attack

English

Noun

heart attack (plural heart attacks)

1. An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
2. (figuratively) Death or failure.

   My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.

Synonyms

• myocardial infarction

Translations

acute myocardial infarction

Albanian: infarkti miokardial (sq) Arabic: احتشاء قلبي (ar) (iHtishaa' qalbiy) m. Armenian: սրտի կաթված (hy) (srti katʿvac) Basque: miokardio infartu akutu (eu) Bulgarian: инфаркт на миокарда (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 心臟病發作 (zh), 心脏病发作 (zh) (xīnzàngbìng fāzuò), (formal medical term) 心肌梗死 (zh) (xīnjī gěngsǐ) Croatian: infarkt miokarda (hr) Czech: infarkt myokardu (cs) m. Danish: hjertanfald (da) n., hjertetilfælde (da) n. Dutch: hartaanval (nl) Finnish: sydänkohtaus (fi), sydäninfarkti (fi) French: crise cardiaque (fr), infarctus du myocarde (fr) German: Myokardinfarkt (de) m., akuter Myokardinfarkt (de) m. Greek: έμφραγμα (el) (émfragma) n. Hebrew: התקף לב (he) Hungarian: szívroham (hu) Indonesian: serangan jantung (id) Italian: infarto del miocardio Japanese: 心筋梗塞 (ja) (しんきんこうそく, shinkin kōsoku), 心臓発作 (ja) (（しんぞうほっさ, shinzou hossa))

Korean: 심근경색 (ko) (simgeungyeongsaeg) Kurdish: Mirina masûlkeyên dil, Myokardînfarkt Latin: infarctus cordis, infarctus cordis acutus, infarctus myocardii, infarctus myocardii acutus Macedonian: срцев напад Norwegian: hjerteinfarkt, hjerteattakk, myokardieinfarkt Polish: zawał serca Portuguese: infarto agudo do miocárdio, enfarte agudo do miocárdio Russian: сердечный приступ (ru) (serdéčnyj prístup) m., инфаркт миокарда (ru) (infárkt miokárda) m., острый инфаркт миокарда (ru) (óstryj infárkt miokárda) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: срчани удар Roman: srchani udar (sr) Spanish: infarto agudo de miocardio Swedish: hjärtinfarkt Turkish: kalp krizi, miyokard enfarktüs, miyokardiyal enfarktüs Ukrainian: серцевий напад (sermeviyi napad) Vietnamese: nhồi máu cơ tim Yiddish: הארץ אטאקע (yi)

See also

• Myocardial infarction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Myocardial infarction
• heart failure