All 9 Uses of
cardiac
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- Claire began to pull the cardiac monitors off her chest.†
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- Brain death, the doctor had explained, was different from cardiac death.†
- If cardiac death had occurred, the organs wouldn't be viable for transplant.†
- A heart donor has to be brain-dead; lethal injection causes cardiac death.†
- There were multiple parts involved: the transcript of Shay Bourne attesting that he wanted to donate his heart to the sister of his victim; an affidavit from Claire Nealon's cardiac surgeon, stating that she did indeed need a heart to survive.†
- Behind her, on the cardiac monitor, Claire's failing heart chugged a steady rhythm.†
- She was in a monitored bed, and I stared at the screens, at the mountainous terrain of her cardiac rhythm, sure that if I didn't blink we'd be safe.†
- I knew the procedure as well as any cardiac resident; I'd studied it that carefully, and that long.†
- My mother told me once, in her dump truck-load of fun facts about cardiac patients, that when you do a transplant the nerve that goes from the brain to the heart gets cut.†
Definition:
of or relating to the heart