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cardiac
adjective
1Relating to the heart.
‘a cardiac arrest’- ‘He survived a near fatal heart attack and subsequent cardiac surgery, only to succumb to motor neurone disease.’
- ‘New labeling information includes: post-marketing reports of heart attacks, sudden cardiac deaths, and hypertension.’
- ‘For example, after a heart attack or cardiac surgery, minor muscular chest aches and pains may be misinterpreted as evidence of angina, leading to unnecessary worry and disability.’
- ‘A temporary pacemaker may be required in the short term for certain individuals after a heart attack, during cardiac surgery or general anaesthesia.’
- ‘With the fall intravascular volume, there is diminished venous return to the right heart, low cardiac output, and a drop in systemic blood pressure.’
- ‘If you've had a heart attack, other heart condition or heart surgery, cardiac rehabilitation may help get you back to leading as active and productive a life as possible.’
- ‘Patients then underwent a coronary angiogram and electromechanical mapping of the heart in a cardiac catheterization laboratory.’
- ‘We determined cardiac reactivity by averaging heart rate in the 20 seconds immediately after presentation of the stimulus.’
- ‘When nurses went to his room, they found a ‘flat line’ on the cardiac monitor and no heart rate, the report said.’
- ‘In these patients, the heart rate, cardiac output, and blood pressure rise appropriately in response to exercise.’
- ‘The decrease in cardiac output that accompanies heart failure also leads to significant reductions in renal blood flow.’
- ‘These mice are characterized by polycythemia but have normal blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output.’
- ‘Heart palpitations and cardiac arrhythmias are common problems encountered by family physicians.’
- ‘High output failure occurs when the cardiac output of the heart remains significantly elevated for a long period.’
- ‘The cardiac exam revealed distant heart sounds without murmurs or gallops.’
- ‘Two days after the cardiac injury, the hearts of all the rats were removed and examined.’
- ‘Once cardiac arrhythmias, structural heart disease, and non-cardiac causes of syncope have been ruled out, head up tilt testing is usually the first line of testing.’
- ‘Fewer than half of the patients referred to emergency departments and cardiac outpatient clinics have heart disease.’
- ‘Several cardiovascular problems may be caused by electrical injury, including vessel rupture, cardiac arrest and cardiac arrhythmias.’
- ‘The evidence suggests that common antidepressants can safely reduce the risk of recurrent heart attacks in depressed cardiac patients.’
2Relating to the part of the stomach nearest the esophagus.
- ‘‘Piles’ of the cardiac orifice of the stomach from obstruction to the portal system may produce hemoptysis.’
- ‘Compared to cancer of the distal stomach, cardiac cancer carries an even worse prognosis.’
- ‘Proximal stomach tumors of the cardiac region have actually increased in incidence in recent years.’
- ‘Patches of the mucous membrane of the upper part of the esophagus are frequently found whose structure resembles the cardiac part of the stomach.’
- ‘The esophagus enters the stomach between the fundus and body of the stomach, commonly known as the cardiac portion of the stomach.’
- ‘The sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach is the lower esophageal, or cardiac, sphincter.’
- ‘Sea stars feed by extruding their cardiac stomach over their prey, thus predation begins at the pinacocytic layer.’
- ‘The mouth leads to the cardiac stomach, which is what the sea star everts to digest its prey.’
noun
1A person with heart disease.
‘some medical patients, such as cardiacs, need rest and quiet’- ‘I'm finding all this talk of post-op cardiacs particularly relevant after my two months of cardiology call and this month in the NICU.’
- ‘Can cardiacs be given productive jobs?’
- ‘Auricular tachycardia occurs more frequently in patients who have no structural heart disease whatever than it does in outspoken cardiacs.’
- ‘Eighty-five subjects (paraplegics, cardiacs, and physically normal controls) were given a variety of tests.’
2British informal A heart attack.
‘I thought I was going to have a cardiac when the water hit me’
Origin
Late Middle English (as a noun denoting heart disease): from French cardiaque or Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos, from kardia ‘heart or upper opening of the stomach’. The adjective dates from the early 17th century.
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