How to pronounce “heart attack”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (cardiology, pathology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
• (figurative) A major fright.
• (figurative) Death or failure.

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