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coarctation
[ koh-ahrk-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- Pathology.
- a narrowing of the lumen of a blood vessel.
- a congenital anomaly of the heart in which there is a narrowing of the aorta, resulting in abnormal blood flow.
- Entomology. the condition of having the body enclosed in a hardened shell or puparium.
Word History and Origins
Origin of coarctation1
Example Sentences
And it appeared Rycker had aortic coarctation, a narrowing of the large blood vessel branching off the heart, which would cause it to pump harder to force blood through the body.
She had a heart defect, Tennant said afterward, more specifically, coarctation of the aorta.
The hole in Rian’s heart closed on its own, but he still has a coarctation of the aorta, which is a narrowing of the large blood vessel that leads from the heart.
In children, the most common cause of high blood pressure is a narrowing, or coarctation, of the aorta.
In this study, the most common type of this defect was coarctation of the aorta -- a narrowing in the body's main artery that, in children, typically requires surgical repair.
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