cardiac arrest
The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective…The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood.
» The cause of death was cardiac arrest.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood.
Kreislaufstillstand, Herzstillstand
остано́вка се́рдцаostanóvka sérdca
- 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
Examples
9 sentencesThe cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Heart attack and cardiac arrest are not the same.
We used emergency measures to revive the cardiac arrest patient.
deWir griffen zu Notmaßnahmen, um den Patienten mit Herzstillstand wiederzubeleben. — samueldora
A man on the treadmill suddenly collapsed and went into full cardiac arrest.
High-dose magnesium is often used as an antidote in cardiac arrest protocols.
Translations
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Forms
plural: cardiac arrests| Singular | cardiac arrest |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- 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:asystolecardiopulmonary arrest
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.