Word: myocardium
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...well enough to be moved to Walter Reed, where he soon suffered three more. In their twice-daily reports, cardiologists tried to distinguish between "mild heart attacks" and "myocardial infarctions." At best, the distinction is difficult to make. Infarction is the process in which part of the myocardium (heart muscle) is killed by being deprived of blood. Even a mild thrombosis and occlusion nearly always causes some infarction, though it may be an extension of an old scar...
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