heart attack

English

Alternative forms

• heartattack, heart-attack

Pronunciation

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Noun

heart attack (plural heart attacks)

2. (cardiology, pathology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.

   Synonym: myocardial infarction

   • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 April 2014:

     Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.

3. (figurative) A major fright.

   She'll have a heart attack when she sees that!

4. (figurative) Death or failure.

   My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.

Derived terms

• heart attack on a plate
• serious as a heart attack

Descendants

• → Finnish: haartätäkki

Translations

acute myocardial infarction

• Albanian: infarkti miokardial
• Arabic: اِحْتِشَاء قَلْبِيّ m (iḥtišāʔ qalbiyy), احتشاء عضلة القلب m

  Hijazi Arabic: جَلْطَة f (jalṭa), سَكْتَة قَلْبِيَّة f (sakta galbiyya)

• Armenian: սրտի կաթված (srti katʻvac)
• Azerbaijani: miokard infarktı
• Basque: miokardio infartu akutu
• Belarusian: сардэ́чны пры́ступ m (sardéčny prýstup), інфа́ркт міяка́рда m (infárkt mijakárda), інфа́ркт m (infárkt)
• Bulgarian: инфа́ркт на миока́рда m (infárkt na miokárda), инфа́ркт m (infárkt)
• Catalan: infart m, atac de cor m
• Cebuano: atake sa kasingkasing
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心肌梗死 (zh) (xīnjī gěngsǐ), 心肌梗塞 (zh) (xīnjī gěngsè), 心臟病發作 / 心脏病发作 (xīnzàngbìng fāzuò)

• Czech: infarkt myokardu m
• Danish: hjerteanfald n, hjertetilfælde n
• Dutch: hartaanval (nl) m, hartinfarct (nl) n, myocardinfarct (nl) n
• Esperanto: korinfarkto
• Estonian: südamerabandus, südameatakk
• Finnish: sydänkohtaus (fi), sydäninfarkti (fi)
• French: crise cardiaque (fr), infarctus du myocarde (fr)
• Georgian: მიოკარდიუმის ინფარქტი (mioḳardiumis inparkṭi)
• German: Herzinfarkt (de) m, Myokardinfarkt (de) m, akuter Myokardinfarkt m
• Greek: έμφραγμα (el) n (émfragma), έμφραγμα του μυοκαρδίου (el) n (émfragma tou myokardíou), καρδιακή προσβολή f (kardiakí prosvolí)
• Gujarati: હૃદયાઘાત (hŕdyāghāt)
• Haitian Creole: kriz kadyak
• Hebrew: הֶתְקֵף לֵב (he)
• Hindi: हृदयाघात m (hŕdyāghāt)
• Hungarian: szívroham (hu), szívinfarktus (hu), infarktus (hu)
• Icelandic: hjartaáfall (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: serangan jantung (id)
• Ingrian: syänrapahus
• Interlingua: infarcimento myocardial
• Irish: taom croí
• Italian: infarto del miocardio, sciopon m (dialectal)
• Japanese: 心筋梗塞 (ja) (しんきんこうそく, shinkin kōsoku), 心臓発作 (ja) (しんぞうほっさ, shinzō hossa), 心臓麻痺 (ja) (しんぞうまひ, shinzō mahi)
• Kazakh: миокард инфарктысы (mıyokard ıynfarktısı)
• Khmer: គាំងបេះដូង (kĕəng behdoung)
• Korean: 심근경색(心筋梗塞) (ko) (simgeun'gyeongsaek), 심장발작(心臟發作) (simjangbaljak), 심장마비(心臟痲痹) (ko) (simjangmabi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Mirina masûlkeyên dil, Myokardînfarkt

• Latin: infarctus cordis, infarctus cordis acutus, infarctus myocardii, infarctus myocardii acutus
• Latvian: miokarda infarkts m
• Lithuanian: miokardo infarktas m, širdies smūgis m
• Macedonian: срцев на́пад m (srcev nápad)
• Malay: serangan jantung (ms)
• Malayalam: ഹൃദയാഘാതം (hr̥dayāghātaṁ)
• Māori: mate manawa
• Mongolian: зүрхний шигдээс (zürxnii šigdees)
• Norwegian: myokardieinfarkt

  Bokmål: hjerteinfarkt (no) n, hjerteattakk

  Nynorsk: hjarteinfarkt n

• Persian: سکته قلبی (sakte-ye qalbi), انفارکتوس میوکارد (enfârktus-e meyukârd)
• Plautdietsch: Hoatschlach m
• Polish: zawał serca (pl) m
• Portuguese: ataque cardíaco m, infarto do miocárdio m, infarto (pt) m
• Romanian: atac de cord n, infarct (ro) n, infarct miocardic (ro) n
• Russian: серде́чный при́ступ m (serdéčnyj prístup), инфа́ркт миока́рда m (infárkt miokárda), инфа́ркт (ru) m (infárkt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срчани удар, инфаркт миокарда

  Latin: srčani udar, infarkt miokarda

• Slovak: infarkt myokardu m
• Slovene: miokardni infarkt m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wutšobowy infarkt m

• Spanish: ataque cardíaco m, ataque al corazón m, infarto (es) m, infarto agudo de miocardio, ataque cardiaco m
• Swahili: mshtuko wa moyo
• Swedish: hjärtinfarkt (sv) c
• Tagalog: atake sa puso
• Tamil: மாரடைப்பு (ta) (māraṭaippu)
• Telugu: గుండెపోటు (guṇḍepōṭu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kalp krizi, miyokard enfarktüs, miyokardiyal enfarktüs
• Ukrainian: серцеви́й напа́д m (sercevýj napád), інфа́ркт міока́рда m (infárkt miokárda), інфа́ркт m (infárkt)
• Urdu: دل کا دورہ (dil ka daura), دورہ قلب (daura qalb), قلبی دورہ (qalbī daura), قلبی دور (qalbī daur)
• Vietnamese: nhồi máu cơ tim
• Welsh: trawiad ar y galon (cy) m
• Yiddish: האַרץ־אַטאַקע f (harts-atake), האַרץ־אינפֿאַרקט m (harts-infarkt)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

death — see death

failure — see failure

See also

• cardiac arrest
• heart failure

Further reading

• myocardial infarction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia