Search Result for "cerebrovascular_accident":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain;
[syn: stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cerebrovascular accident n 1: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain [syn: stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA]