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CVA

CVA is the initialism of cerebrovascular accident.

CVA is the initialism of costovertebral angle.

Meaning of cerebrovascular accident

Noun

cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)

  1. (euphemistic, formal, sometimes) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).

Forms of CVA

pluralCVAs

Questions about CVA

What is CVA the initialism of?
CVA is the initialism of cerebrovascular accident.

Words near CVA in the dictionary

  1. CV ICU
  2. CV joint
  3. CV joints
  4. CV-19
  5. cv.
  6. CVA
  7. CVAD
  8. CVADs
  9. Cvammen
  10. cvarak
  11. cvarci

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CVA (page history and authors); cerebrovascular accident (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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