cerebrovascular accident
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Alternative forms
- CVA (initialism)
Noun
cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)
- (medicine, formal, sometimes euphemistic) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).
Translations
loss of brain function — see also CVA
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