Do not confuse them. Jump to: navigation , search. An infarction is a blockage or obstruction. It is a word almost entirely confined to medical contexts, where it is perhaps most often seen as a Myocardial infarction , or heart attack; and Cerebrovascular accident , or stroke.
Both are caused by blockage of the blood supply to the organ concerned - the heart or the brain. Etymologically it comes from the same root as the French word farcis used in up-market cookery and restaurants etc. It means 'stuffed'. An infarction , then, is a 'stuffing' to bursting point of such organs as blood vessels. Infraction simply means 'breaking. Etymologically , it is derived from the same root as the verb 'to infringe'.
There were more shooting fouls drawn, but there were also more freedom of movement infraction s that occurred before the shot. Because the tickets were filed in recent years as infraction s rather than misdemeanors, the process has played out administratively, not criminally.
Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction. They all were insisting that their alleged crime was really an administrative infraction. Two weeks later, came another, bigger penalty, for the same infraction , and then a third.
But it soon became apparent that his infraction of discipline in crossing the Ohio was not forgiven. They were, besides, made amenable to a most rigorous system of laws, the least infraction of which was punished with death. Most of them are the penalties imposed by nature because of the infraction of her laws. To be found under a convoy is not, in itself, an infraction of the treaty, but the conduct of this convoy is to be considered.
All must obey, or compose, the same laws that ran without infraction through the entire experience of man. New Word List Word List.
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