CORONARY ARTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronary artery mean? 

• CORONARY ARTERY (noun)
  The noun CORONARY ARTERY has 1 sense:

1. the artery that branches from the aorta to supply blood to the heart

  Familiarity information: CORONARY ARTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONARY ARTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The artery that branches from the aorta to supply blood to the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteria coronaria; coronary artery

Hypernyms ("coronary artery" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coronary artery"):

atrial artery (the branch of the coronary artery that supplies the muscles of the atria)

right coronary artery (arises from the right aortic sinus; supplies the right side of the heart)

left coronary artery (arises from the left aortic sinus; supplies the left side of the heart)

Holonyms ("coronary artery" is a part of...):

heart; pump; ticker (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)

 Context examples 

A terminology codelist that contains symptoms associated with coronary artery disease.

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Symptoms Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Terminology associated with the coronary artery disease symptoms codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Symptoms Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the coronary artery dominance codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Dominance Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist to describe the extent of coronary artery disease.

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Vessel Disease Extent Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Even patients with preexisting coronary artery plaque saw a reduction in coronary inflammation following biologic therapy.

(Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition, National Institutes of Health)

A terminology codelist to describe the relative risk of coronary artery disease.

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Risk Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A left coronary artery branch that descends on the anterior portion of the heart through the anterior interventricular groove.

(Anterior Descending Coronary Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the coronary artery disease presentation codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Presentation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

These diseases include coronary artery disease, heart rhythm problems, and heart failure.

(Cardiology, NCI Dictionary)

A terminology codelist associated with coronary artery disease presentation.

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Presentation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)