heart failure

1. 1.

   inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

   Synonymscoronary failure

   Broaderheart diseasefailure

   Narrowercongestive heart failureheart attack

Questions about heart failure

What does heart failure mean?

heart failure means "inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions".

What is another word for heart failure?

Close synonyms include coronary failure. 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 heart failure a common word?

heart 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.