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  • They've monitored my cardiac rhythms and my respiratory functions.  (source)
  • They know it's cardiac.  (source)
    cardiac = heart-related
  • He's in the cardiac-care unit, and no one can talk to him.  (source)
    cardiac = heart
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  • The Honorable Reuben V. Atlee was recovering from his third heart attack, with the recovery expected to be "full," if one can physically feel complete after so much cardiac damage.  (source)
    cardiac = heart
  • Too much and they went into terminal cardiac arrest.†  (source)
    cardiac arrest = when the heart stops beating
    editor's notes: Cardiac arrest is often used interchangeably with heart attack, but they have different technical meanings. Cardiac arrest usually results from an electrical disturbance in the heart and might be treated with a defibrillator or CPR.  A heart attack typically occurs when a blood clot blocks blood flowing to the heart.
  • If there was cardiac weakness—  (source)
    cardiac = heart
  • Intent to make some sense of the tragedy, she used the money to create a fund that would provide equipment and training to paramedics on a new procedure for dealing with respiratory or cardiac arrest, a technique that could have saved my father's life.†  (source)
    cardiac arrest = when the heart stops beating
  • They were all mumbling words like cardiac and stress.†  (source)
  • "Immediate cardiac arrest," he says.†  (source)
  • Then, only a few weeks later, just as I was wondering if I should broach the cat issue again, I'd almost fainted from the cardiac plunge of coming in my room to find him kneeling on the rug near my bed—reaching under the bed, as I thought, but in fact reaching for the putty knife on the floor; he was replacing a cracked pane in the bottom of the bedroom window.†  (source)
  • I wondered if Sam flew her airplane like this, and if so, how many flight instructors she had sent into cardiac arrest.†  (source)
  • A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.†  (source)
  • Peter Lawford died in 1984 from cardiac arrest brought on by liver failure.†  (source)
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