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CPR

CPR is the initialism of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Meaning of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Noun

cardiopulmonary resuscitation (countable and uncountable, plural cardiopulmonary resuscitations)

  1. A first aid procedure for cardiac arrest involving compression of the chest wall alternating with artificial respiration.
    • Near-synonyms: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth, heart massage

Forms of CPR

pluralCPRs

Questions about CPR

What is CPR the initialism of?
CPR is the initialism of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Words near CPR in the dictionary

  1. CPOs
  2. cpp
  3. CPPD
  4. CPPS
  5. CPQ
  6. CPR
  7. CPRM
  8. CPRs
  9. cps
  10. CPSA
  11. CPSC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CPR (page history and authors); cardiopulmonary resuscitation (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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