An infarction is tissue death due to lack of blood flow.
What is an Infarction?

Magnetic resonance imaging showed infarction of the right middle cerebral artery. Vision Loss and RNFL Thinning after Internal Carotid Arter Occlusion and Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction: Gunes A, Demirci S, Umul A - Acta Informatica medica: AIM: journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina: časopis Društva za medicinsku informatiku BiH (2014). Not altered. CC.