Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the procedure used to place stents, is a medical procedure that is commonly known as coronary angioplasty. Another problem that can occur after PCI is too much tissue growth within the treated portion of the artery. This can cause the artery to become narrow or blocked again.
Sadomasochism can be defined as the giving or receiving of pleasure, often sexual, from the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. It can feature as an enhancement to sexual pleasure, or, in some cases, as a substitute or sine qua non.
Definition of masochism. 1  1 : the derivation of sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation by oneself or another person â compare sadism, sadomasochism. 2  2 : pleasure in being abused or dominated : a taste for suffering.