infarction

noun

process leading to tissue death or loss of blood supply
tissue death caused by a local lack of oxygen, due to an obstruction of the tissue's blood supply

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɑːk.ʃən/ / /ɪnˈfɑɹk.ʃən/

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infarctiō, equivalent to infarct + -ion.

The process which causes an infarct.
An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).
“But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.”
“Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.”