CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebrovascular accident mean? 

• CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT (noun)
  The noun CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT 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: CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT (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 ("cerebrovascular accident" is a kind of...):

attack (a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition)

Meronyms (parts of "cerebrovascular accident"):

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

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

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 

A question about whether an individual has or had a cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic disease.

(Has a Cerebrovascular Accident or Transient Ischemic Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called cerebrovascular accident and stroke.

(CVA, NCI Dictionary)

Symptoms are usually present when there is severe narrowing or obstruction of the arterial lumen and manifest as ischemic cerebrovascular accidents.

(Carotid Artery Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Dictionary)

A six point scale that qualifies a person's physical abilities following a cerebrovascular accident.

(Modified Rankin Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

The risk of cerebrovascular accident 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 cerebrovascular accident.

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Dictionary)