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Definition of cardiac adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cardiac

adjective

/ˈkɑːdiæk/

/ˈkɑːrdiæk/

[only before noun] (medical)

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connected with the heart or heart disease
- cardiac disease/failure/surgery
- to suffer (a) cardiac arrest (= an occasion when a person’s heart stops temporarily or permanently)
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Cardiac is used with these nouns:
failure
massage
monitoring
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Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting heart disease): from French cardiaque or Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos, from kardia ‘heart or upper opening of the stomach’. The adjective dates from the early 17th cent.

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