cardiac
IPA: kˈɑrdiæk
noun
- A person with heart disease.
- (dated) Heart disease.
- (medicine) A medicine that excites action in the stomach.
adjective
- (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart.
- (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
- (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
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Examples of "cardiac" in Sentences
- Regulation of the cardiac cycle.
- It is the most common cause of cardiac syncope.
- Cardiac yoga is recommended to the medically stable patients.
- This examination was concerning auscultation and cardiac pulses.
- In the case of cardiac amyloidosis, the organ involved is the heart.
- Aldolase is also found in the liver and cardiac muscle of the heart.
- The cardiac complications are the most important aspect of the disease.
- The cardiac output changes as result of the stroke volume and heart rate.
- Cardiac electrophysiology is the study of the electrical system of the heart.
- Scientists have discovered that changes in a key cardiac protein can lead to heart muscle malfunction and precipitate heart failure.
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