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HEART FAILURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
Synonyms:
coronary failure; heart failure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("heart failure" is a kind of...):
failure (loss of ability to function normally)
cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart failure"):
congestive heart failure (inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues)
heart attack (a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function)
Context examples:
Causes include systemic conditions (e.g., heart failure, liver failure, or kidney failure) and local conditions affecting the extremities.
(Pitting Edema, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events and heart failure.
(Muraglitazar, NCI Thesaurus)
The most recent occurrence of heart failure.
(Most Recent Heart Failure Event, NCI Thesaurus)
The date of the heart failure event requiring an individual to seek medical attention.
(Date of Heart Failure Prompting Medical Attention, NCI Thesaurus)
The date of the most recent occurrence of heart failure.
(Date of Most Recent Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug used to treat irregular heartbeat and some types of heart failure.
(Digoxin, NCI Dictionary)
It can lead to life-threatening conditions including severe intestinal problems and heart failure.
(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)
It is manifested during infancy with cyanosis, dyspnea, and rapidly progressing heart failure.
(Aortic Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)
Those with the mutation have a lower risk of diabetes, obesity, heart failure, and even death.
(Gene mutation points to new way to fight diabetes, obesity, heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
People suffering from heart failure can’t regenerate their damaged hearts and the only cure is a heart transplant.
(New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts, University of Cambridge)
