cardiac arrest
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- noun
- /ˈkɑrdiæk əˈrɛst/
- Specialized
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paro cardíaco
- Immediate CPR can significantly increase the chances of survival after cardiac arrest.
- sudden cardiac arrest
- die of cardiac arrest
- survive a cardiac arrest
Also, these can lead to cardiac arrest, heart attack or stroke.
- Also, these can lead to cardiac arrest, heart attack or stroke.
- If he ain't breathing or making noises like this, then he's having a cardiac arrest.
- The heart may temporarily change rhythm, but the heart only stops during a cardiac arrest.
- And in fact, most cardiac arrests, meaning heart stopping happen not in hospital settings.
- We're getting ready to go out and I get a call from her and she says, you know, our youngest son just had a cardiac arrest.
- And we, we left it there, you know, up until a few months later where my dad suffered an unexpected cardiac arrest and died.
- I died and cardiac arrest and they hit me with the bop gun and all that.
- It wasn't until I went into cardiac arrest that was put under the the transplant list.
- So they rushed me to the hospital where I had a simultaneous work up for cardiac arrest and stroke.
- You know, the sorts of situations like cardiac arrests, which all doctors have to face personal decisions.
- But one of the leading issues for death in the United States, cardiac arrest, heart arrest, it all comes from what people eat.
Examples
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Sixty-five percent of the cardiac arrests occurred in children, teenagers, or young adults.
Academic text (2007) -
If we don't act fast, it means suffocation or cardiac arrest.
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But some of them actually have had cardiac arrest because of this.
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Um, a young girl is going into cardiac arrest.
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You also have to be aware that cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack.
Blog text (17) -
We have a patient suffering from cardiac arrest.
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In Simcoe County, two students suffered full cardiac arrest in the past school year.
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One of the most successful treatments for cardiac arrest is the education and public use of AEDs.
Academic text (2007) -
He had a cardiac arrest immediately and we're very fortunate in the era that we live in that we have these resources and this knowledge.
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Anorexia and bulimia can cause an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to cardiac arrest and death.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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9.9
The heart stops beating and needs treatment right away to prevent death
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When the heart and lungs suddenly stop working, breathing and heartbeat stop
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'cardiac' (heart-related) with 'arrest' (a halt/stop), so its core meaning — the heart stopping or its function being halted — is directly derivable from the constituents. This medical compound is cross-linguistically transparent (many languages use equivalent literal constructions), so a B1 learner who knows the parts would likely grasp the basic meaning even if they lack detailed clinical knowledge.
Etymology
Cardiac arrest comes from the parts cardiac, meaning about the heart, and arrest, meaning to stop. It creates the image of the heart suddenly stopping, so it means 'the heart stops working' and blood can no longer move around the body.