cardiorespiratory

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions

   “cardiopulmonary resuscitation”

   Synonymscardiopulmonary

Questions about cardiorespiratory

What does cardiorespiratory mean?

cardiorespiratory means "of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions".

How many syllables are in cardiorespiratory?

cardiorespiratory has 8 syllables: car-di-o-re-spi-ra-to-ry. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for cardiorespiratory?

Close synonyms include cardiopulmonary. 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.

Is cardiorespiratory a common word?

cardiorespiratory 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.