heart attack
nounDefinition of heart attack
Note: Symptoms of heart attack include discomfort or pain in the chest, shoulder, arm, back, neck, or jaw, shortness of breath, dizziness or light-headedness, heartburn, nausea, excessive sweating, and extreme fatigue.
— called also myocardial infarction
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My blockages were made of mostly calcium, not cholesterol, and that was due to DNA: My father also had calcium buildup which caused him to have a heart attack at 49. — Susan Lucci As Told To Tiffany Blackstone, Woman's Day, "Susan Lucci Shares All About the Heart Scare That Sent Her to the ER," 6 Feb. 2019 Fatigue, insomnia, and flu-like symptoms may also appear in the lead-up to a heart attack. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "Doctors Kept Calling It Stress. Then I Learned I Had a 98% Blockage in My Heart.," 7 Feb. 2019 Uribe rushed next door and discovered the woman had suffered an apparent heart attack hours earlier. — Tim Craig, Washington Post, "Answering the call," 1 June 2018 The Marine Corps has identified the recruit who died Sunday morning after experiencing an apparent heart attack. — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Marine heart attack victim identified," 27 Mar. 2018 Braulio Salinas Santiago, 71, died of an apparent heart attack in the parking lot of Maunabo's makeshift hospital on January 18, according to his wife, Margarita Baerga Diaz. — Sam Petulla, CNN, "'We are the forgotten people': It's been almost six months since Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Ricans are still dying," 15 Mar. 2018 And the dead do stay dead, even if Milo Ventimiglia somehow remains fully employed long after his character was lost to that post-fire heart attack. — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, "As 'Roseanne' reappears and 'This Is Us' flashes forward, TV demonstrates time is relative," 15 Mar. 2018 Sprague pleaded guilty to one count of copyright infringement and was allowed to return to Chicago but got busted for piracy again and, while awaiting trial, was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent heart attack. — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, "Oscars: Hal Janney and More Inside References Explained," 9 Mar. 2018 The swashbuckling, visionary entrepreneur who built a global retailing empire and the most famous company in Sacramento history died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. — Dale Kasler And Bob Shallit, sacbee, "Founder of Tower Records dies at 92 while drinking whiskey and watching the Oscars," 6 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'heart attack.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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