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widow-maker

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'widow-maker'
Cardiology Severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery, so named as occlusion thereof is classically associated with sudden death post acute MI


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As performed with great resonance by American bass Greer Grimsley, the notorious widow-maker was strangely sympathetic.
For,not only did he deprive so many innocent people of their lives,he was an orphan-maker and a widow-maker too.
In the woods, however, a widow-maker is a tree that hangs up on another tree as it falls.
 
 
 
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