congestive heart failure
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3.5
- noun
- /kənˈdʒɛstɪv hɑrt ˈfeɪljər/
- Specialized
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insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva
- Roosevelt experienced congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease as a consequence of his hypertension and smoking.
- patients with congestive heart failure
- chronic congestive heart failure
- history of congestive heart failure
This is FDA approved for hypertension or high blood pressure and for congestive heart failure.
- This is FDA approved for hypertension or high blood pressure and for congestive heart failure.
- Number six is congestive heart failure, CHF, and this can be even mild undiagnosed CHF or heart failure.
- Sure, congestive heart failure played, played a factor.
- Bring forth the memes when your non compliant patient with congestive heart failure goes off meds and starts a high sodium diet.
- You need to salt your food to taste to realize optimal health, and this includes even people with congestive heart failure.
- I mean, not surprisingly, congestive heart failure when you're, when you're overweight, that sort of thing can, can quite easily happen to you.
Examples
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None of these dogs had evidence of congestive heart failure at the time of the radiographs.
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Patients had high fever and were severely ill at admission; more than half had congestive heart failure (Table 1).
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If somebody does not have an insurance plan and they have congestive heart failure, who or what could possibly make their care better?
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You have congestive heart failure.
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All patients presented initially with congestive heart failure of at least 6 months' duration.
Academic text (1991) -
The patient was therefore included in the study because congestive heart failure preceded hypoxia.
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The doctor consented, and the X-ray showed the early signs of congestive heart failure.
Academic text (2003) -
The major use of Coenzyme Q10 would be in the case of congestive heart failure, where it is particularly effective.
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We report a case of VLS with pleural effusions in conjunction with congestive heart failure.
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Her husband, Kenneth, 54, suffers from congestive heart failure and requires repeated hospitalization.
Synonyms
48
3.0
A condition when the heart cannot pump enough blood around the body
The heart cannot pump enough blood to the body, causing tiredness and shortness of breath
A condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
congestive + heart + failure
The term is fully compositional: 'congestive' (relating to fluid buildup) + 'heart' (the pumping organ) + 'failure' (loss of normal function) directly yields the meaning of the heart failing and causing congestion. This medical construction is transparent and parallels equivalents in many languages, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Congestive heart failure comes from the simple image of the heart as a pump and the blood vessels as pipes: if the pipes are congestive (full or clogged) the pump can fail and fluid 'builds up' in the body. That's why the term means the heart is 'not working' well and extra fluid collects in the body.