Myocardial infarction is the medical term for heart attack.
The heart muscle needs oxygen to survive. The coronary arteries deliver oxygen to the heart muscle (the myocardium). When one or more of the arteries supplying the heart becomes blocked, the oxygen supply to the myocardium stops, and the part of the heart muscle supplied by that particular artery dies. This is myocardial infarction.
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