cardiovascular disease

1. 1.

   a disease of the heart or blood vessels

   Broaderdisorder

   Narrowerheart diseasehigh blood pressurehypotensionaneurysmcirculatory failure

Questions about cardiovascular disease

What does cardiovascular disease mean?

cardiovascular disease means "a disease of the heart or blood vessels".

Is cardiovascular disease a common word?

cardiovascular disease 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.