Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
Ather/o is the medical terminology combining form meaning plaque or fatty substance.
The plaque says 1969 A.D. It means 1969 years after the death of Jesus Christ.
Endarterectomy
Leukoplakia means white plaque.
plaque
Balloon angioplasty is the procedure to flatten the plaque in a partially blocked coronary artery.
The removal (-ectomy) of the innermost (endo-) lining of the artery (arter/o) (or removal of a plaque from that lining) is endarterectomy. Notice that the vowel o was dropped from the prefix. Atherectomy is another term.endarterectomyAngioplastyendarterectomyater/oisis
Fatty plaque - ie. The doctors removed a large atheroma from the side of his heart vessel with a a balloonoplasty type prcedure.
Angioplasty or balloon angioplasty is the medical term meaning passage of a balloon catheter through the lumen of an occluded coronary vessel to compress plaque against the arterial walls.
The plaque over Jesus' head on the cross is commonly depicted with the Latin inscription "INRI," which stands for "Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum," meaning "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." This plaque was likely placed there by the Romans to signify the crime for which Jesus was being crucified.
plaque
I went to the dentist and he removed the plaque from my teeth