CVA stands for what term?

• A. Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
• B. Myocardial Infarction
• C. Aneurysm
• D. Transient Ischemic Attack

Answer: (A)

CVA stands for Cerebrovascular Accident, which is the medical way of describing a stroke. It means something disrupts the blood supply to a part of the brain, causing brain cells to be damaged or die and leading to sudden neurological symptoms. This term highlights the vascular problem in the brain rather than in the heart or other vessels.

Other terms refer to different conditions: a myocardial infarction is a heart attack, due to loss of blood flow to heart muscle; an aneurysm is a bulge in a vessel that can rupture; a transient ischemic attack is a brief, temporary interruption of blood flow to the brain that resolves without lasting damage. So CVA specifically denotes a brain vascular event, i.e., a stroke, rather than a heart issue, a vessel dilation, or a brief, reversible episode.