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/kˈɔrənˌɛri/ Listen

adjective

Coronary adj.

Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." "The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus."

(Anat.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

noun

Coronary n.

A small bone in the foot of a horse.

Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used informally to mean heart attack.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coronary" Quotes from Famous Books

... taxes were imposed and levied by the absolute authority of the monarch; but the occasional offerings of the coronary goldstill retained the name and semblance of popular consent. It was an ancient custom that the allies of the republic, who ascribed their safety or deliverance to the success of the Roman arms, and even the cities of ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... something, Lefty," she said. "When you had the heart model over at the hospital, you showed me the coronary artery, ...

— The Right Time • Walter Bupp

... commonly called the knee of a horse is its wrist. The "cannon bone" answers to the middle bone of the five metacarpal bones, which support the palm of the hand in ourselves. The "pastern," "coronary," and "coffin" bones of veterinarians answer to the joints of our middle fingers, while the hoof is simply a greatly enlarged and thickened nail. But if what lies below the horse's "knee" thus corresponds to the middle finger in ourselves, ...

— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley