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cardiac arrests

cardiac arrests is the plural of cardiac arrest.

Meaning of cardiac arrest

Noun

cardiac arrest (countable and uncountable, plural cardiac arrests)

  1. The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood.
    • She went a few months before Sukumar died, a cardiac arrest in the middle of an afternoon nap, her rickety heart beating one moment, and then no more.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 249

Questions about cardiac arrests

What is cardiac arrests the plural of?
Cardiac arrests is the plural of cardiac arrest.

Words near cardiac arrests in the dictionary

  1. cardi
  2. cardi-
  3. cardia
  4. cardiac
  5. cardiac arrest
  6. cardiac arrests
  7. cardiac board
  8. cardiac boards
  9. cardiac muscle
  10. cardiac muscles
  11. cardiac output

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