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Define a heart attack?
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See below: A heart attack occurs when blood flow to a part of your heart is blocked for a long enough time that part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies. The medical term for this is myocardial infarction.
Answered 6/11/2014
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Correctly: Means some heart muscle death identified by ekg, cellular enzyme release, or autopsy findings. Myocardium is heart muscle infarction is ischemic death.
Answered 9/28/2013
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