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heart failure

heart failure noun: 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.

Noun

heart failure (countable and uncountable, plural heart failures)

  1. 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. 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

heart failure meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Malay

heart failure in Tamil

cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest
மாரடைப்பு māraṭaippu

heart failure in Kannada

ಎದೆಸೋಲು

heart failure in Arabic

chronic inability of the heart
قُصُور القَلْب quṣūr al-qalb, فَشَل القَلْب fašal al-qalb

heart failure in Malay

chronic inability of the heart
lemah jantung
More languagesFewer languages
heart failure in Indonesian
gagal jantung
heart failure in Persian
نارسایی قلب nâresâyi e qalb

Synonyms of heart failure

Forms of heart failure

pluralheart failures
alternative formheart-failure

Questions about heart failure

What does heart failure mean?
Heart failure means 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.
What is heart failure in Tamil?
Heart failure in Tamil is மாரடைப்பு (māraṭaippu). See Heart failure meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heart failure?
Heart failure is a noun.
What is the plural of heart failure?
The plural of heart failure is heart failures.

Words near heart failure in the dictionary

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  2. heart clovers
  3. heart disease
  4. heart diseases
  5. heart eyes
  6. heart failure
  7. heart failures
  8. heart line
  9. heart lines
  10. heart massage
  11. heart massages

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