Synonyms for heart attack
heart at·tack

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1. heart attacknoun

   Synonyms:
   myocardial infarction

2. heart attacknoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   myocardial infarction

3. heart attacknoun

   Death or failure.

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

   Synonyms:
   myocardial infarction

Princeton's WordNet

1. heart attacknoun

   a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function

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1. • Attack
   • Heart Failure

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1. Rob Lyon:

   I saw a car, the crunch of car hitting the curb. I kind of thought the guy had maybe had a heart attack or something, it hit several people. I jumped out the way into a road,( my) colleagues jumped the other way towards the Thames but held on, thankfully.

2. Ron Honberg:

   We're asking the police to fill the gaps that have been created by inadequate mental health resources, it seems sadly ironic, tragically ironic when you call 911 about someone having a heart attack, they send a trained EMT professional, but when you call about someone in a psychotic crisis, a psychotic episode, they send police.

3. Paul Abrams:

   Your house kind of has a heart attack, all that extra activity is enough to push it over the edge.

4. Tyler Henry:

   There definitely is a degree of like physical pain that can come through but I find when I actually deliver the message. For example, if someone passed from a heart attack and I say, ‘Oh, they’re acknowledging they passed from a heart related problem’ then the pain will immediately go away because once that message is delivered there is no need for that continued effect.

5. Jacob George:

   By switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes we found an average percentage point improvement of 1.5 within just one month, and to put that into context, each percentage point improvement in vascular function results in a 13% reduction in cardiovascular event rates, such as heart attack.