WordNet
n. failure of the cardiovascular system to supply adequate amounts of blood to body tissues
Usage examples of "circulatory failure".
Joe just seemed to have a general-ized circulatory failure, from no proximate cause at all.
The probable cause of death was circulatory failure, but there are lots of reasons a very elderly man with a terminal illness would have died from circulatory failure.
My doctor's eyes told me that this was not a blindness from birth, but one more recent and gradual: her skin, the truth-teller, was mottled and scarred from recurrent infection, the nails pale, suggesting a circulatory failure of the small vessels, most likely severe diabetes.
I was here for the stark private funeral service for Lieutenant Commander Repro, who had suffered a circulatory failure.
Jack tried to fight the image of Taylor in a coma, succumbing to circulatory failure and multiple organ shutdown.