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infarto

heart attack

noun een-FAHR-toh Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Origin: from Latin infarctus, 'stuffed in'

Also means

infarction

Usage Note

Infarto is the standard medical and colloquial term for a heart attack; the full form is infarto de miocardio. Colloquially, me dio un infarto is used hyperbolically to mean 'it gave me a fright'. Do not confuse with derrame cerebral (stroke) or angina, which is chest pain without infarction.

Examples

"Su padre sufrió un infarto a los sesenta años."

Natural Translation

His father had a heart attack at sixty.

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