cardiac output

1. 1.

   the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time

   “a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quarts a minute”

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Questions about cardiac output

What does cardiac output mean?

cardiac output means "the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time".

Is cardiac output a common word?

cardiac output 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.