Definitions of coronary heart disease
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a heart disease due to an abnormality of the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the hearttypes:coronary occlusionocclusion of a coronary artery caused either by progressive atherosclerosis or by a blood clotcoronary, coronary thrombosisobstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus)type of:
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