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ischaemia

ischaemia is the alternative spelling of ischemia.

Meaning of ischemia

Noun

ischemia (countable and uncountable, plural ischemias or ischemiae)

  1. (US) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).
    • Coordinate term: hypoperfusion
    Antonyms:
    reperfusion

Forms of ischaemia

pluralischaemias
pluralischaemiae

Words formed from ischaemia

Questions about ischaemia

What is ischaemia the alternative spelling of?
Ischaemia is the alternative spelling of ischemia.

Words near ischaemia in the dictionary

  1. Iscariotic
  2. Iscariotical
  3. Iscariotism
  4. Iscariots
  5. Isch
  6. ischaemia
  7. ischaemiae
  8. ischaemias
  9. ischaemic
  10. ischaemically
  11. ischatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ischaemia (page history and authors); ischemia (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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