There is no significant difference between cerebral infarction and cerebral thrombosis; cerebral infarction is the formal medical term and cerebral thrombosis is the common name for the common man, and many times the two are equivalent. Strictly speaking, cerebral infarction is broader and includes both cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism.
One way of classifying cerebral infarction is based on the clinical presentation and includes three types of cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism and cerebral infarction due to haemodynamic mechanisms. Of these, cerebral thrombosis tends to develop at rest or during sleep, with clinical symptoms peaking a few hours or one to two days after onset, with hemiparesis, hemianesthesia, slurred speech and unsteady walking as common manifestations, and also dizziness, headache, vomiting and even coma, leading to death in severe cases.
Cerebral embolism mainly refers to cardiogenic cerebral embolism, which can occur at any age and is more common in young adults, mostly with an acute onset during activity, with focal neurological signs peaking in seconds to minutes, and with the same symptoms as cerebral thrombosis.