NOUN
- brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply; symptoms depend on the site of the blockage
How To Use transient ischemic attack In A Sentence
- Because many transient ischemic attacks are associated with permanent cerebral damage, a better label would be ministroke.
- Sometimes called a ministroke, a transient ischemic attack is a brief, temporary obstruction of blood supply to your brain.
- In this particular case, the tricuspid papillary fibroelastoma was thought to be the cause of this patient's transient ischemic attack, manifesting as right arm and facial paresthesia and weakness.
- Mothers may also have livedo reticularis, arterial or venous thrombosis, or neurologic conditions such as migraine, epilepsy, chorea, or transient ischemic attacks.