restenosis
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiːstɪˈnəʊsɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹistɪˈnoʊsɪs/
- Hyphenation: re‧ste‧no‧sis
Noun
restenosis (countable and uncountable, plural restenoses)
- (pathology) The recurrence of stenosis, especially that of an artery.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 126:
- Marathe's wife was dying slowly of ventricular restenosis.