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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cardiac
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arrest
▪ Surgical resection proved impossible after he had a cardiac arrest on the operating table.
▪ She was by now in constant crisis; she was suffering repeated cardiac arrests.
▪ About 20% of patients recruited for this study were cardiac arrest survivors.
▪ According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.
▪ A few seconds, but every one vital in the case of a cardiac arrest.
▪ In most cases, diet deaths are simply listed as cases of cardiac arrest.
▪ She then suffered a cardiac arrest 32 hours after admission.
▪ He was in full cardiac arrest and could not be resuscitated.
arrhythmias
▪ It was therefore not possible to predict, on the basis of patient characteristics, those who would develop cardiac arrhythmias.
▪ Hence patients requiring smaller doses of levodopa who are troubled with nausea cardiac arrhythmias, or hypotension may use this dosage form.
▪ Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
▪ One should be aware of the induction of cardiac arrhythmias in older people or those with such a predisposition.
▪ More complicated models for the simulation of cardiac arrhythmias are available for nurses specialising in intensive care work.
▪ While toxic concentrations of these drugs often lead to cardiac arrhythmias, low concentrations have been found to have antiarrhythmic activity.
▪ Supplemental oxygen increases oxygen saturation but does not reduce the incidence of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias.
death
▪ Firstly, cardiac death would be reduced but not death due to stroke.
▪ Secondly, death due to stroke would be reduced but not cardiac death.
▪ Fourthly, neither death due to stroke nor cardiac death would be reduced.
▪ The long-term epidemiological risk factors for sudden cardiac death greatly resemble those for coronary artery disease.
failure
▪ Introduction Cardiac transplantation has now become an accepted therapeutic option for many patients with terminal cardiac failure.
▪ Although the child died, apparently from cardiac failure, the principle of external ventilation had been established.
▪ Blockage of these results in circulatory impediment which may lead eventually to congestive cardiac failure.
▪ All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function.
output
▪ This is more likely following infarction when cardiac output may be reduced and therefore tissue perfusion impaired.
▪ In congestive heart failure, it is diminished because of low cardiac output and reduced arterial distending pressure.
▪ Pathogenesis of Hypertension Blood pressure is dependent upon two factors: cardiac output and peripheral resistance.
▪ Examples: Haemorrhage reduces cardiac output.
▪ There was no cardiac output and resuscitation was abandoned at 1.55 a.m.
surgery
▪ I hope that the waiting list for cardiac surgery will reduce greatly over the next year.
▪ Heart disease, then major cardiac surgery and now what is being described as pneumonia have kept him from work.
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
▪ There was no cardiac surgery unit in the two districts studied.
▪ In addition, cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied.
▪ Any renal unit serving a district with cardiac surgery facilities would have significantly more patients developing acute postoperative renal failure.
▪ Two different points to consider For many elderly patients it will be decided that cardiac surgery is not clinically indicated.
▪ The rate of stroke in high-risk cardiac surgery patients receiving aprotinin therapy is lower than would be anticipated.
transplantation
▪ As expected, graft atherosclerosis becomes problematical in long term survivors of cardiac transplantation.
▪ Main outcome measures Long term survival in patients after urgent cardiac transplantation and perceived quality of life.
▪ Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Patients with cardiac problems should avoid foods that are high in salt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.
▪ As expected, graft atherosclerosis becomes problematical in long term survivors of cardiac transplantation.
▪ Blood was obtained by direct cardiac puncture for cholecystokinin assay.
▪ Firstly, cardiac death would be reduced but not death due to stroke.
▪ For instance, members can now receive radiation oncology, eye surgery, and emergency cardiac care from Summit Medical Center.
▪ Forty percent of Down patients suffer some cardiac problems.
▪ The mechanism is thought to be decreased cardiac venous return associated with the Valsalva maneuver.
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardiac

Cardiac \Car"di*ac\ n. (Med.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

Cardiac

Cardiac \Car"di*ac\, a. [L. cardiacus, Gr. ?, fr. ? heart: cf. F. cardiaque.]

  1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

  2. (Med.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

    Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic]

    Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cardiac

c.1600, from French cardiaque (14c.) or directly from Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos "pertaining to the heart," from kardia "heart" (see heart (n.)). Cardiac arrest is attested from 1950.\n

\nGreek kardia also could mean "stomach" and Latin cardiacus "pertaining to the stomach." This terminology continues somewhat in modern medicine. Confusion of heart and nearby digestive organs also is reflected in Breton kalon "heart," from Old French cauldun "bowels," and English heartburn for "indigestion."

Wiktionary
cardiac

a. 1 Pertaining to the heart. 2 Pertaining to the cardia. 3 (context medicine archaic English) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. n. 1 A person with heart disease. 2 (context medicine English) A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

WordNet
cardiac

adj. of or relating to the heart; "cardiac arrest"

Wikipedia
Cardiac (comics)

Cardiac (Elias Wirtham) is a fictional character, a vigilante anti-hero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer David Michelinie and penciller Erik Larsen, he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #342 (December 1990).

Usage examples of "cardiac".

Then he called the cardiac catheterization lab to check on the patient in cardiogenic shock.

It contains four glycosides, the most powerful of which is digitoxin, a stimulant that increases cardiac activity, causing the heart and arteries to contract and raising the blood pressure.

Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him--it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.

Henry was assigned a bed in the intensive care ward, cardiac and encephalographic monitors keeping close track of his vital systems.

I was telling Neddy about a Tangier concert whereat he introduced his cardiac arrest hoedown number.

Denver is an urban oasis, sequestered in relative privacy between the suburb-mimicking big-box sprawl of University Hills Shopping Center and the always-congested multilane ribbons of concrete that comprise Interstate 25, which bisects southeast Denver like a bypass scar on a cardiac patient.

The person who should have been there was not the chief of cardiac surgery, but the chief of general surgery, who, like Rae, was a nonvoting member of the board.

Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.

When it came time for the skycap to hoist the trunk from the cart, he tugged and wheezed like a cardiac patient.

Phil told me that the slides were suggestive of a circulatory collapse and not a sudden cardiac death.

The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.

None of these responses were usual side effects of local anesthetics, although local anesthetics were capable of causing an extraordinarily wide range of adverse neurological and cardiac effects in a few unfortunate individuals.

There were about twenty in all, mostly male cardiologists and their wives, and two cardiac surgeons.

Campbell had had a few brief episodes of an irregular cardiac rhythm but that had been controlled when an astute resident found some unrelieved gastric dilation.

John Vincent and his cardiac arrest and her promise to Heidi to find some way to get the obstetricians to bring their low-risk patients back to Berkeley Hills Hospital.