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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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... 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

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