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What is the noun for infarction?

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infarction
  1. (pathology) The process which causes an infarct.
  2. (pathology) An infarct.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We reported a case of an 86-year old woman with pure agraphia due to the left parietal lobe infarction.”
      “Reperfusion of the artery affected by infarction occasionally fails with thrombolytic treatment.”
      “In the placebo-controlled trials, atenolol had no effect on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, or stroke.”
infarct
  1. (pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The locked-in syndrome is caused by an insult to the ventral pons, most commonly an infarct, haemorrhage, or trauma.”
      “An abdominal computed tomographic scan showed gallstones and a splenic infarct.”
      “Within the infarct region itself, cardiac outgrowth cells formed discrete clusters of spherical cells surrounded by fibrous tissue.”
infarctions
infarcts
  1. plural of infarct
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1882, Karl Huber reported on 17 patients with cardiac infarcts, which he attributed to occluded coronary arteries.”
      “Bone involvement may also lead to bone pain and pathologic fractures, bone infarcts, and osteonecrosis.”
      “Crisis intervention makes intuitive sense to physicians and surgeons used to myocardial infarcts and obstructed hernias.”
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