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coronary

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


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Increasingly, people are opting, too, for a simple, relatively affordable test: a coronary artery calcium scan, or CAC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“One of the reasons why clinicians use this is because there is data that shows when there are coronary calcifications patients are more likely to take medications and to adopt other preventive therapies,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Cardiologists favor this approach to stress testing to exclude coronary artery disease because it is relatively inexpensive, it is noninvasive and it yields a good deal of information about the structure of the heart.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

The court heard that following his death pathologists carried out a post mortem and found he had a coronary artery condition.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

She was still red in the face from laughing after the sea- gull crapped on my head—I thought she was going to have a total coronary.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen