CVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CVA mean? 

• CVA (noun)
  The noun CVA has 1 sense:

1. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

  Familiarity information: CVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

apoplexy; cerebrovascular accident; CVA; stroke

Hypernyms ("CVA" is a kind of...):

attack (a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition)

Meronyms (parts of "CVA"):

cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain)

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

ischaemic stroke; ischemic stroke (the most common kind of stroke; caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain (as from a clot blocking a blood vessel))

haemorrhagic stroke; hemorrhagic stroke (stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain)

 Context examples 

Provide a high level of professional nursing care with a special emphasis on the care of individuals with neurological diseases/diagnoses, such as stroke (CVA), brain injury, or spinal injury.

(Neurological Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

CVAs are caused by blood clots and broken blood vessels in the brain.

(CVA, NCI Dictionary)

Also called CVA and stroke.

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Dictionary)

The risk of CVA is increased by high blood pressure, older age, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, atherosclerosis (a buildup of fatty material and plaque inside the coronary arteries), and a family history of CVA.

(CVA, NCI Dictionary)