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MI (medicine)


MI


A term used to describe irreversible injury to heart muscle. Also called a heart attack.

See: infarction.

Common symptoms include substernal, crushing chest pain that may radiate to the jaw or arms. Chest pains may be associated with nausea, sweating and shortness of breath.