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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The use of the adjective coronary, to describe the blood vessels that surrounds the heart “like a crown”, can be traced to the latter part of the 17th century. Coronary heart disease is associated with an inability of the coronary circulation to supply sufficient blood to the heart muscles. Cornery heart disease might be related with tight corners that restrict the circulation – see the first quoted example. See also hearteries
The problem blocked artery now, on the back of his heart, makes too sharp a turn for the cardiologist to get the balloon to make the corner. Bypass surgery is too risky for one blocked artery.
(http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004 … news01.txt)
YOU being fat is BIG Business. Diet books and tapes, exercise videos, diet foods and drinks, diet clinics, elective surgery, cornery bypass, heart attacks.
(http://www.jackreinholz.com/)
I am a possible candidate for cornery problems/stroke
(http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/dentistnet/r/4942/3/)
Genealogy, cause of death:
Cornery Heart Disease, Arterscleroses, looks like Corcinoma Stomach
(http://boards.tiscali.ancestry.co.uk/lo … .2/mb.ashx)
Health Library:
Corner Artery Bypass Surgery
This surgery can sometimes be recommended for patients with coronary artery disease and ventricular tachycardia (a type of a heart arrhythmia).
(https://healthlibrary.epnet.com/print.a … kiid=19104)
Next, a cute Annie Lehmann – shouldn’t that be *Connery heart disheash”?
Fast food plaint:
Being obese can cause liver malfunction, stroke, Connery heart disease, asma ……..
(http://www.authspot.com/Letters/Persuas … ter.304875)
Term papers for sale:
type A people are 2.5 times more likely to develop Connery heart disease.
(http://termpaperaccess.com/doc_personal … odfko.html)
Contrary heart disease must be some kind of WTF substitution – I doubt it fits the eggcorn code of being someone’s standard usage; it’s more likely to be the fault of contrary finger disease:
Office of Biotechnology, Clinical Research:
Effects of influenza epidemics on autopsy-confirmed death due to contrary heart disease
(http://biotech.uth.tmc.edu/index.php?op … Itemid=162)
Article reference:
The association of coronary calcium score and conventional cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetic subjects asymptomatic for contrary heart disease (The PREDICT Study). Diabet
Med. 2004;21:1129 –1134.
(http://atvb.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint … 1755v1.pdf)
Nother WTF goof?
Fast-track recovery of the contrary bypass patient. Ann Thorac Surg 58: 1742–1746
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/y3223524383g2216/)
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Next, a cute Annie Lehmann – shouldn’t that be *Connery heart disheash�
Best laugh of the day.
Does a bypass operation avoid the tight corners?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I’m wondering if the “contrary” example might actually be another case of a common spell-checker miscorrection.
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