Other lifestyle changes can also reduce your risk of hardening of the arteries: 1  Avoid fatty foods. 2  Eat well-balanced meals that are low in fat and cholesterol. 3  Include several daily servings of fruits and vegetables. 4  Adding fish to your diet at least twice a week may be helpful. 5  However, do not eat fried fish.
Commotio cordis. Commotio cordis (Latin, agitation of the heart) is an often lethal disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region), at a critical time during the cycle of a heart beat causing cardiac arrest.
Noun. 1. spinal cord-a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region. medulla spinalis.. The thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue that extends from the medulla oblongata down through the spinal column and from which the spinal nerves branch off to various parts of the body.