ischemia

English

WOTD – 29 September 2021

Alternative forms

• ischaemia (British spelling)
• ischæmia (British spelling, obsolete)

Etymology

An ischemia in the blood vessels of the foot, leading to cyanosis (“a blue discolouration of the skin”) in the toes.

From New Latin ischaemia, from Ancient Greek ἴσχαιμος (ískhaimos, “stoppage of blood flow”), from ῐ̓́σχω (ískhō, “to hold back, restrain; to stay, stop”) + αἷμᾰ (haîma, “blood”).

The plural form ischemiae is also from New Latin ischaemiae.

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈskiː.mi.ə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈski.mi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːmiə
  • Hyphenation: isch‧e‧mia
• Plural (ischemiae):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈskiː.mi.aɪ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈski.mi.aɪ/
  • Hyphenation: isch‧e‧mi‧ae

Noun

ischemia (countable and uncountable, plural ischemias or ischemiae) (American spelling)

1. (cardiology, pathology) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).

   Antonym: reperfusion

   Hypernym: malperfusion

   Coordinate term: hypoperfusion

Derived terms

• antiischemic
• extraischemic
• intraischemic
• ischaemic, ischemic
• ischaemically, ischemically
• ischaemous, ischemous (obsolete)
• ischemial
• microischemia
• microischemic
• nonischaemic, nonischemic
• periischemic
• postischaemic, postischemic
• thromboischemic
• transient ischaemic attack, transient ischemic attack (TIA)

Translations

local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply

• Arabic: نقص التروية (ar)
• Armenian: արյունարգելություն (aryunargelutʻyun)
• Basque: iskemia
• Catalan: isquèmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缺血 (zh) (quēxuè)

• Czech: ischémie f
• Danish: iskæmi ?
• Dutch: ischemie (nl) f
• Esperanto: iskemio
• Estonian: isheemia
• Finnish: iskemia (fi)
• French: ischémie (fr) f
• German: Ischämie (de) f
• Greek: ισχαιμία (el) f (ischaimía)
• Hebrew: איסכמיה ?
• Hindi: स्थानिक अरक्तता ? (sthānik araktatā)
• Hungarian: iszkémia (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðþurrð f
• Ido: iskemio (io)
• Indonesian: iskemia (id)
• Interlingua: ischemia
• Italian: ischemia (it) f
• Japanese: 虚血 (きょけつ, kyoketsu)
• Kazakh: ишемия (işemiä)
• Korean: 허혈 (heohyeol)
• Kyrgyz: ишемия (işemiya)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цус багадах (cus bagadax)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: iskemi (no) m

  Nynorsk: iskemi m

• Persian: ایسکمی
• Polish: niedokrwienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: isquemia (pt) f
• Romanian: ischemie (ro) f
• Russian: ишеми́я (ru) f (išemíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исхе́мија f

  Roman: ishémija (sh) f

• Spanish: isquemia (es) f
• Thai: การขาดเลือดเฉพาะที่
• Turkish: iskemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ішемі́я ? (išemíja)
• Urdu: اقفار ?
• Uzbek: ishemiya
• Vietnamese: thiếu máu cục bộ

Further reading

• ischemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin ischaemia, from Ancient Greek ἴσχαιμος (ískhaimos, “stoppage of blood flow”), from ῐ̓́σχω (ískhō, “to hold back, restrain; to stay, stop”) + αἷμᾰ (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, isco- +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.skeˈmi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: i‧sche‧mì‧a

Noun

ischemia f (plural ischemie)

1. (pathology) ischaemia, ischemia

Derived terms

• ischemico

 

Related terms

• ischemizzare

 

Further reading

• ischemia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• ischemia in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• ischemia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• ischemìa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• ischemia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana