cardiac arrest

1. 1.

   absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death

   Synonymsasystolecardiopulmonary arrest

   Broaderpathology

Questions about cardiac arrest

What does cardiac arrest mean?

cardiac arrest means "absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death".

What is another word for cardiac arrest?

Close synonyms include asystole, cardiopulmonary arrest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.