ischemia

English

WOTD – 29 September 2021

Alternative forms

• ischaemia (Britain)
• ischæmia (Britain, obsolete)

Etymology

An ischemia in the blood vessels of the foot, leading to cyanosis (“a blue discolouration of the skin”) in the toes.

From New Latin ischaemia, from Ancient Greek ἴσχαιμος (ískhaimos, “stoppage of blood flow”), from ῐ̓́σχω (ískhō), ἰσχάνω (iskhánō, “to hold back, restrain; to stay, stop”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overcome”)) + αἷμᾰ (haîma, “blood”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *say- (“thick or viscous liquid”)).

The plural form ischemiae is also from New Latin ischaemiae.

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈskiː.mi.ə/

  • Audio (RP)

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈski.mi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːmiə
  • Hyphenation: isch‧e‧mia
• Plural (ischemiae):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈskiː.mi.aɪ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈski.mi.aɪ/
  • Hyphenation: isch‧e‧mi‧ae

Noun

ischemia (countable and uncountable, plural ischemias or ischemiae) (American spelling)

1. (cardiology, pathology) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).

Hypernyms

• malperfusion

Derived terms

• antiischemic
• extraischemic
• intraischemic
• ischaemically, ischemically
• ischaemic, ischemic
• ischaemous, ischemous (obsolete)
• ischemial
• microischemia
• microischemic
• nonischaemic, nonischemic
• periischemic
• postischaemic, postischemic
• thromboischemic
• transient ischaemic attack, transient ischemic attack (TIA)

 

Translations

local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply

• Arabic: نقص التروية‎ (ar)
• Armenian: արյունարգելություն (aryunargelutʿyun)
• Basque: iskemia
• Catalan: isquèmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缺血 (zh) (quēxuè)

• Czech: ischémie f
• Danish: iskæmi
• Dutch: ischemie (nl) f
• Esperanto: iskemio
• Estonian: isheemia
• Finnish: iskemia (fi)
• French: ischémie (fr) f
• German: Ischämie (de) f
• Greek: ισχαιμία (el) f (ischaimía)
• Hebrew: איסכמיה‎
• Hindi: स्थानिक अरक्तता (sthānik araktatā)
• Hungarian: iszkémia (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðþurrð f
• Indonesian: iskemia (id)
• Interlingua: ischemia
• Italian: ischemia (it) f

• Japanese: 虚血 (きょけつ, kyoketsu)
• Kazakh: ишемия (ïşemïya)
• Korean: 허혈 (heohyeol)
• Kyrgyz: ишемия (işemiya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: iskemi (no) m

  Nynorsk: iskemi m

• Persian: ایسکمی‎
• Polish: niedokrwienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: isquemia (pt)
• Romanian: ischemie (ro)
• Russian: ишеми́я (ru) f (išemíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исхе́мија

  Roman: ishémija (sh) f

• Spanish: isquemia (es) f
• Thai: การขาดเลือดเฉพาะที่
• Turkish: iskemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ішемі́я (išemíja)
• Urdu: اقفار‎
• Uzbek: ishemiya
• Vietnamese: thiếu máu cục bộ

Further reading

• ischemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

ischemia f (plural ischemie)

1. (pathology) ischaemia, ischemia

Derived terms

• ischemico