cerebrovascular accident

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English

Alternative forms

CVA (initialism)

Noun

cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)

(medicine, formal, sometimes euphemistic) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).

Translations

loss of brain function — see also CVA

Finnish: aivoverenkiertohäiriö
French: accident vasculaire cérébral (fr) m
German: Schlaganfall (de) m
Hungarian: agyi érkatasztrófa
Portuguese: derrame (pt) m, acidente vascular cerebral (pt) m
Spanish: ataque de apoplejía f

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