cerebrovascular accident

English

Alternative forms

• CVA (initialism)

Noun

cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)

1. (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

• Finnish: aivoverenkiertohäiriö
• French: accident vasculaire cérébral (fr) m
• German: Schlaganfall (de) m
• Hungarian: agyi érkatasztrófa
• Portuguese: derrame (pt) m, acidente vascular cerebral (pt) m
• Spanish: ataque de apoplejía f