NOUN
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
How To Use cerebrovascular accident In A Sentence
- The band's first album was entitled CVA, the medical abbreviation for cerebrovascular accident. Mind Hacks: Paint It Black
- Autopsy of the patient showed mild lung scarring but no evidence of acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, or cerebrovascular accident.
- In addition, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular accidents and in particular intermittent claudication occurred more frequently in diabetics of both sexes.
- Formally a "cerebrovascular accident," induced more often by ischemia and less often by intracranial bleeding, a stroke is to the brain what a myocardial infarction heart attack is to the heart: part of the organ dies. David Katz, M.D.: Rising Rate Of Youth Strokes: Why It Was Predictable
- Rarely, vertigo results from a brainstem cerebrovascular accident, intracranial lesion, or migraine.
- Rarely, vertigo results from a brainstem cerebrovascular accident, intracranial lesion, or migraine.
- Saying cerebrovascular accident instead of stroke, for example, leaves you confused as well as ill. The Sun
- The clinical features of severe disease include visual defects, severe headaches, seizures, altered consciousness, cerebrovascular accidents, severe right upper quadrant abdominal pain, congestive heart failure, and oliguria.
- Hence its measurement is used in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accidents.
- a cerebrovascular accident
