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coronary

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


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Days later, his team shared that the 81-year-old rock star successfully underwent “a routine coronary stent procedure” and had to cancel the remainder of his tour and residency dates through September as he recovered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Dr Edward Sheffield, who performed an additional post-mortem examination on Kitchen's body in Bristol, said his cause of death had been cardiac failure due to coronary artery atheroma and the physiological effects of turbulence.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Our findings suggest that not everyone necessarily needs or would benefit from a coronary artery calcium scan for the purpose of predicting risk of heart attack and stroke."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

The key difference is that Takotsubo syndrome does not involve blocked coronary arteries.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

The whole point of chest pain prediction is to make sure that patients who end up having major complications are assigned right away to the coronary and intermediate units.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

The findings indict stress, American-style, as a major cause of coronaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

"People who get fat get coronaries, and the same is true of corporations," says Jim Patterson, public relations director of American Oil Co.

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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