cardiac tamponade

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   mechanical compression of the heart resulting from large amounts of fluid collecting in the pericardial space and limiting the heart's normal range of motion

   Broadertamponade

Questions about cardiac tamponade

What does cardiac tamponade mean?

cardiac tamponade means "mechanical compression of the heart resulting from large amounts of fluid collecting in the pericardial space and limiting the heart's normal range of motion".

Is cardiac tamponade a common word?

cardiac tamponade 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.