How to Use coronary in a Sentence

coronary

adjective
  • Well, one way to find out is to have a coronary calcium scan.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Its products now include catheters, coronary stents, and heart valves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2018
  • At the time, the cause of death was unknown and pending a full coronary report.
    — Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 15 May 2017
  • Roosevelt died of a coronary embolism at age 60.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Coronary heart disease can increase the risk of a heart attack, in which a blood clot blocks blood flow to the heart.
    — Rachael Rettner, Fox News, 10 July 2017
  • And the bride’s uncle later had a coronary while dancing the polka.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2022
  • Penn died in 2006 of coronary disease at age 40.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • He was found dead in his cell the following morning, a victim of coronary artery disease.
    — Ames Alexander, Gavin Off and Elizabeth Leland, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2017
  • Had a mouse suffered a coronary somewhere in the closet’s recesses?
    — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Exposure to cold air was also found to increase blood pressure and reduce coronary blood flow.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Exposure to cold air was also found to increase blood pressure and reduce coronary blood flow.
    — Amy McGorry, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Exposure to cold air was also found to increase blood pressure and reduce coronary blood flow.
    — Amy McGorry, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Many are people 60 and over and who had some type of previous illness or coronary problem.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
  • An autopsy later revealed a coronary arrhythmia was the cause of his death.
    — Alicia Lee, CNN, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The Peloton of it all turns Big’s coronary into a comedy sketch.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Any kind of pain or discomfort in the chest should make a physician concerned about blockages in the coronary arteries.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Wood noted that most of the severe problems from a coronary blockage occur when a person stays home despite their symptoms.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Black mothers, who are three times as likely as white mothers to die, made up close to a third of deaths and were most likely to die of cardiac and coronary problems.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Her son, Caleb Goddard, who announced the death on Thursday, said the cause was coronary failure.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Instead of a left and a right coronary artery, Anderson had two coronary arteries on the right side that supplied blood to his heart.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
  • When coronary arteries are blocked, starving the heart of blood, there are good medications and treatments to deploy, from statins to stents.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • This type of clot, known as coronary thrombosis, is the usual cause of myocardial infarction (heart attack).
    — Jessica Firger, Newsweek, 17 June 2017
  • For one thing, the test measures arterial plaque that is hardened and firmly attached to the lining of coronary vessels.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The screening test is a five-minute CT-scan used to determine a patient’s coronary calcium score.
    — Ginger Christ, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Brexit could result in thousands of additional deaths due to coronary disease and stroke—since access to healthy foods could be reduced.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The development of coronary care units promises a profound change in the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease.
    — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
  • Elfering woke up in the hospital and spent four days in the coronary care unit (CCU) before she was discharged.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Her husband informed them of her history of coronary issues, which includes a 2008 open-heart surgery.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • For some patients, other tools—like a coronary calcium scan, which can directly show whether there’s silent plaque in the arteries—may be more useful.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In some cases, kids have life-threatening aneurysms that threaten to burst the coronary arteries, the delicate vessels that supply blood to the heart.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020

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