ischaemia
noun/ɪˈskiːmiə/
/ɪˈskiːmiə/
(North American English ischemia)
[uncountable] (medical)- the situation when the supply of blood to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart muscles, is less than is neededTopics Health problemsc2Word Originlate 19th cent. (denoting the staunching of bleeding): modern Latin, from Greek iskhaimos ‘stopping blood’, from iskhein ‘keep back’ + haima ‘blood’.
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