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CHF

CHF is the initialism of congestive heart failure.

CHF is the initialism of centre half-forward.

Meaning of congestive heart failure

Noun

congestive heart failure (countable and uncountable, plural congestive heart failures)

  1. A syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues.

Questions about CHF

What is CHF the initialism of?
CHF is the initialism of congestive heart failure.

Words near CHF in the dictionary

  1. cheznut
  2. cheznuts
  3. Chełm
  4. Chełmno
  5. Chețani
  6. CHF
  7. ChFC
  8. ChFCs
  9. chg
  10. chgd.
  11. chge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CHF (page history and authors); congestive heart failure (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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