cardiac arrest

Noun

Meaning

absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

asystole cardiopulmonary arrest attack stroke angina coronary-artery disease coronary angina pectoris arrhythmia heart attack heart disease heart failure cardiovascular disease cerebrovascular accident bradycardia
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Antonyms

pulsation pulse beating palpitation heartbeat arrhythmia
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Hypernyms

pathology

Examples

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. Woody Allen

He went under feeling far from felled, anything but doomed, eager yet again to be fulfilled, but nonetheless, he never woke up. Cardiac arrest. He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. Philip Roth

I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest... it was hard to say what exactly. Richelle Mead

It's a shell game... They "give" you "free" health-care, then enslave you with a tax burden so heavy you go into cardiac arrest from the load. Michael Savage

AED's have increased in popularity and dispersal so that people with cardiac arrest in public can be cardioverted to a safer rhythm before help can arrive. Source: Internet

A little over a month after Nick Gordon passed away, autopsy and toxicology reports corroborate suggestions that his cardiac arrest was brought on by heroin. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cardiac and vascular cardiac angina cardiac anomaly cardiac arrest response cardiac arrest resuscitation cardiac arrest treatment