Word: thrombus
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...keep him alive for months. Like all muscles, the heart requires the nourishment of blood. It gets this blood through two coronary arteries which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...
...patient usually has heart disease or may have recently undergone a major operation. A blood clot (thrombus) breaks loose from its anchorage, floats with the blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire...
...clogging of the blood flow. This may occur when: 1) a blood clot floating through the circulatory system (i.e., embolus) jams in a coronary artery; or 2) disease so roughens the smooth wall of a coronary artery that blood cells accumulate like silt on a river bar (i. e., thrombus). In either case the victim of coronary thrombosis, who may think he is suffering from acute indigestion, often drops dead without warning. Such, for example, was the end of Calvin Coolidge...