1.
[syn: coronary thrombosis, coronary]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart);
- Example: "coronary arteries"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Coronary \Cor"o*na*ry\, n.
1. A small bone in the foot of a horse.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used
informally to mean heart attack.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Coronary \Cor"o*na*ry\ (k?r"?-n?-r?), a. [L. coronarius: cf. F.
coronaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form,
a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." --Bp. Pearson.
[1913 Webster]
The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in
Theophrastus. --Sir T.
Browne.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Anat.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet;
as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
coronary
adj 1: surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels
surrounding the heart); "coronary arteries"
n 1: obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood
clot (thrombus) [syn: coronary thrombosis, coronary]