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n. A decrease in the blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue, or part caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels.

n. Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (vasoconstriction, thrombosis or embolism).

n. In pathology, local anemia produced by vasoconstriction or by other local obstacles to the arterial flow.

n. local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism

"In any case, in either language, I wasnt familiar with the word ischemia, it turned out to be, a localized anemia that obstructed arterial blood flow; I would find it in the dictionary much later."

anemia    anæmia   

ischemic stroke    transient ischemic attack    ischaemic stroke    Tia   

ischemic   

infarction    vasculature    hematoma    necrosis    thrombosis    perfusion    arrhythmia    hemorrhage    edema    hypertension