cardiac cycle

1. 1.

   the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles

   “the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram”

   Broadercycle

Questions about cardiac cycle

What does cardiac cycle mean?

cardiac cycle means "the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles".

Is cardiac cycle a common word?

cardiac cycle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.