coronary

Speech parts

1. coronary - Noun

2. coronary - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.

Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.

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Examples

Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings. Joel Fuhrman

[Responding to the argument that a plant-based diet is extreme] Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that "extreme.”. Caldwell Esselstyn

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. Robert Shea

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. Mary Kay Blakely

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary. Davy Jones

In all of western civilization, there is nothing more common than coronary artery heart disease, and that is because of the foods that most people eat every day. Caldwell Esselstyn

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