infarct

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The researchers did not find any connection between gum disease and two other types of brain changes associated with small vessel disease: cerebral microbleeds and lacunar infarcts.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

For example, regions of damaged heart tissue, called infarcts, reflect electrical waves and are apparent in one or more lead potentials.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Ike's heart had so many, or such extensive, infarcts that the original sinus-node impulse could not follow its normal path.

From Time Magazine Archive

The brains of victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Traumata, the presence of foreign bodies in the conjunctival sac, or the irritations of superficial chalky infarcts in the Meibomian ducts, cause more or less severe transitory congestion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various