heart failure
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See also: heart-failure
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Noun
heart failure (countable and uncountable, plural heart failures)
- (cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
- Synonyms: congestive cardiac failure, congestive heart failure
- Hyponyms: HFrEF (heart failure due to reduced ejection fraction), HFpEF (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction)
- (cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
Translations
chronic inability of the heart
cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest — see also cardiac arrest
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