HEART FAILURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does heart failure mean? • HEART FAILURE (noun)
The noun HEART FAILURE has 1 sense:
1. inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
Familiarity information: HEART FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEART FAILURE (noun)
Meaning:
Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
coronary failure; heart failure
Hypernyms ("heart failure" is a kind of...):
failure (loss of ability to function normally)
cardiopathy; heart condition; 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)
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