cerebrovascular accident

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

CVA (initialism)

Noun[edit]

cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)

(medicine, formal, sometimes euphemistic) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).

Translations[edit]

loss of brain function — see also CVA

Finnish: aivoverenkiertohäiriö
French: accident vasculaire cérébral (fr) m
German: Schlaganfall (de) m
Hungarian: agyi érkatasztrófa
Portuguese: derrame (pt) m, acidente vascular cerebral (pt) m
Spanish: ataque de apoplejía f

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