cardiac
UK/ˈkɑːdɪæk//ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/
cardiac adjective: pertaining to the heart.
Adjective
cardiac (not comparable)
Noun
cardiac (plural cardiacs)
- A person with heart disease.
- Heart disease.
cardiac meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic
cardiac in Tamil
- இதயத் தொடர்பான, இதயம் சார்ந்த, இதய, இதய உட்சிரை, இதயத்துக்குரிய, இதயிய
cardiac in Bengali
- pertaining to the heart
- কার্ডিয়াক karḍiẏak
cardiac in Kannada
- ಗುಂಡಿಗೆಯ, ಗುಂಡಿಗೆಡೆಯ, ಗುಂಡಿಗಂಡಿಯ, ಗುಂಡಿಗೆಬಾಯಿಯ, ಗುಂಡಿಗೆಮದ್ದು
cardiac in Arabic
- pertaining to the heart
- قَلْبِيّ qalbiyy
More languagesFewer languages
- cardiac in Persian
- قلبی qalbi
Examples of cardiac in a sentence
- Low cardiac output due to heart failure can lead to stagnant hypoxia.
- Cardiac arrest is an emergency requiring medical attention.
- A micropower source is required for modern cardiac electronics.
Antonyms of cardiac
Forms of cardiac
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | cardiack |
| Noun | |
| plural | cardiacs |
Origin of cardiac
From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”); by surface analysis, cardi- + -ac.
Words formed from cardiac
- amniocardiac
- apicocardiac
- ballistocardiac
- branchiocardiac
- cardiac arrest
- cardiac board
- cardiac muscle
- cardiac output
- cardiac passion
- cardiac plexus
- cardiac syndrome X
- cardiac tamponade
- cerebrocardiac
- cervicicardiac
- cervicocardiac
- congestive cardiac failure
- craniocardiac
- craniocerebellocardiac
- electrocardiac
- endocardiac
- esophagocardiac
- exocardiac
- extracardiac
- gastrocardiac
- great cardiac vein
- hepatocardiac
- infracardiac
- intracardiac
- magnetocardiac
- mesocardiac
- myocardiac
- nephrocardiac
- neurocardiac
- oculocardiac
- pancardiac
- paracardiac
- postcardiac
- precardiac
- pseudocardiac
- pterocardiac
- renocardiac
- retrocardiac
- supracardiac
- transcardiac
- trigeminocardiac
- urocardiac
- zygocardiac
Phrases with cardiac
Questions about cardiac
- What does cardiac mean?
- Cardiac means pertaining to the heart.
- What is cardiac in Tamil?
- Cardiac in Tamil is இதயத் தொடர்பான, இதயம் சார்ந்த, இதய. See Cardiac meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cardiac?
- Cardiac can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cardiac?
- Cardiac is pronounced /ˈkɑːdɪæk/ (UK).
Words near cardiac in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cardiac (page history and authors); cardiac (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cardiac (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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