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CARDIAC CYCLE

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• CARDIAC CYCLE (noun)
The noun CARDIAC CYCLE has 1 sense:

1. the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles

Familiarity information: CARDIAC CYCLE used as a noun is very rare.

• CARDIAC CYCLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram

Hypernyms ("cardiac cycle" is a kind of...):

cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)

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