circulatory failure

1. 1.

   failure of the cardiovascular system to supply adequate amounts of blood to body tissues

   Broadercardiovascular disease

Questions about circulatory failure

What does circulatory failure mean?

circulatory failure means "failure of the cardiovascular system to supply adequate amounts of blood to body tissues".

Is circulatory failure a common word?

circulatory failure 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.