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Your tissue, throttled — oxygen delivery suspended while the bill comes due in cell death.
means A shortage of blood flow to a part of the body, starving tissue of oxygen and nutrients.
from From Greek iskhein, to hold back, plus haima, blood — literally blood held back, the body's traffic jam coined in the 1800s.
Heart attacksAre ischemia in the cardiac muscle itself.
Reperfusion paradoxRestoring blood can injure tissue further.
Brain mathStroke kills millions of neurons per minute.