coronary inefficiency

coronary inefficiency
   a weak heart
   Medical jargon which verges on circumlocution or pomposity:
    A coronary inefficiency had made it necessary for Robert Winthrop to use a wheelchair. (Ludlum, 1979)
   If someone is said to have suffered a coronary, it means he has had a heart attack.

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