ISCHEMIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ischemic mean? 

• ISCHEMIC (adjective)
  The adjective ISCHEMIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or affected by ischemia

  Familiarity information: ISCHEMIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISCHEMIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or affected by ischemia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

ischaemic; ischemic

Pertainym:

ischemia (local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism)

Derivation:

ischemia (local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism)

 Context examples 

H2O2 opens mitochondrial KATP channels and inhibits GABA receptors via protein kinase C-epsilon in cardiomyocytes inducing ischemic preconditioning.

(Flumazenil Cardioprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a key role in physiological blood vessel formation and pathological angiogenesis such as tumor growth and ischemic diseases.

(Angiogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes adenosine A3 receptor protein, is involved in the prevention of ischemic injury to cardiac ventricular cells and may play a role in reproduction.

(ADORA3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with dysprothrombinemia and genetic variation may affect susceptibility to ischemic stroke.

(F2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Epo is also secreted in the brain in response to hypoxia, such as ischemic stroke.

(Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

With large prostates in LPB-Tag mice, have seen foci of coagulative necrosis, likely ischemic

(Coagulative Necrosis of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Myocardial changes were prominent, with foci of ischemic necrosis and hyperplastic vascular changes.

(CRDH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

As a vascular disruption agent (VDA), this agent also disrupts tumor neovascularization, which may result in a reduction in tumor blood flow and tumor hypoxia and ischemic necrosis.

(Crolibulin, NCI Thesaurus)

Ischemic necrosis of the bone tissue and the marrow.

(Bone Infarction, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result of fosbretabulin's dual mechanism of action, the tumor vasculature collapses, resulting in reduced tumor blood flow and ischemic necrosis of tumor tissue.

(Fosbretabulin Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)