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werrett on Aug 11, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality...

  infarct    - an area of dead tissue caused by a loss 
               of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
  infarction - the process which causes an infarct. [1]

I think you meant infraction but infarction works too. :)

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infarct

ajju on Aug 11, 2010 [–]

Good catch. Firefox's auto-correct is still not smart enough to catch misused words :)

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