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Morgan smith had an acute myocardial infarction, commonly referred to as a heart attack determine the main term and the essential modifier

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I would say the main term is myocardial infarction and the modifier is acute which means that it is serious but a discrete one time thing as opposed to a chronic condition like say arthritis that is usually with a person for many successive years rather than just occurring once.
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