heart failure
noun1
Cardiology, Medicine, Pathology, Sciences The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
2
Cardiology, Medicine, Pathology, Sciences The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
- Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 56:
- Related terms
- cardiac arrest, heart attack