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cardiac arrest

noun

, Pathology.
  1. abrupt cessation of heartbeat.


cardiac arrest

noun

  1. failure of the pumping action of the heart, resulting in loss of consciousness and absence of pulse and breathing: a medical emergency requiring immediate resuscitative treatment


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cardiac arrest1

First recorded in 1955–60

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Example Sentences

After more than 18 months of treatment, she died of cardiac arrest in her sleep.

In 2014, Crystal Brackens-Prieston suffered an unexplained cardiac arrest at 27 years old.

Then we looked at more than a decade of Medicare data to find people who lived in ZIP codes along those race routes who happened to have either a heart attack or a cardiac arrest on the day a marathon was held in their city.

Sometimes we’re lucky to bring people back to life from a cardiac arrest.

The second reason we looked at heart attacks and cardiac arrest is that these are serious business.

A woman, sixty-eight, suffers a heart attack and goes into prolonged cardiac arrest.

But there are reports which say cannabis can be considered as a cause of death because it can induce a cardiac arrest.

She suffered cardiac arrest before the surgery and was put into a medically induced coma to aid her recovery.

He admitted himself for testing and, while in the hospital, went into full cardiac arrest.

James Gandolfini suddenly died Wednesday of a cardiac arrest at the age of 51.

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