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coronary

[kawr-uh-ner-ee, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌnɛr i, ˈkɒr- /


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When I had my heart attack, they put three stents in my coronary arteries and blah, blah, blah.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

A stent is a small wire tube that can be inserted into coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart, if they have become narrowed or blocked.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The new statement reviews recent evidence about caffeinated coffee and its possible relationships with high blood pressure, cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, other arrhythmias and other cardiovascular conditions.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Graham’s office said the medical examiner in Washington, D.C., attributed the South Carolina Republican’s death to aortic dissection, due to coronary artery disease.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

“Not that I know of. If you see that man again, tell him to lay off the red meat. He’s just a coronary waiting to happen.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Cramer began experiencing long bouts of anxiety, increasingly severe panic attacks and imaginary coronaries.

From New York Times May 12, 2011

In hindsight, it's a miracle there weren't a fair few coronaries to go with the coronation of the class of 2005.

From The Guardian Aug. 27, 2010

Clotting in the carotids, as in the coronaries, results from narrowing of the vessels by atherosclerosis, the deposition of porridge-like material containing cholesterol and other complex chemicals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men up and down the storm collapse with coronaries, snow shovels in their hands, cheeks gone a deathly color, like frostbitten plums.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we can rid ourselves of some of our chronic, degenerative diseases, and cancer, strokes, and coronaries, we might go on and on.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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