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In a post on social media, external-link Roebuck said tests found she had suffered a "left occipital infarct" but there was no lasting damage to her brain or vision.

Officer Sicknick died from “acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to basilar artery thrombosis,” Dr. Diaz ruled, meaning a serious stroke.

The meager staff has to manage everything that comes its way, “from malaria to myocardial infarcts to convulsions to head injuries,” Dr. Mathew said.

Doctors, for instance, have several ways of describing the same concept — a heart attack might be referred to as a myocardial infarction, a myocardial infarct or even just ‘MI’.

Before what her hospital records list as “a right temporoparietal infarct,” Ma was blunt, unconventional and such a monument of self-confidence you could have sold tickets.