Cardiac

Definition: Cardiac

Cardiac

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the heart; "cardiac arrest".

Date "cardiac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Cardiac

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	A substance supposed beneficial to the heart. Achras, Citrus, Coffes, Gomphrena, Persea, Phoebe, Polypodium, Tamarindus. (references)
Health	Having to do with the heart. (references)
Public Administration	Pertaining to the heart; Cardiac treatment, cardiac massage, cardiac arrest, cardiac death. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cardiac

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CARDIAC	English	Cardboard Illustrative Aid to Computation	Computing
CARDI-ASSIST	English	Improving cardiac telediagnosis and surgery enabling technologies and 3D ultrasound imaging	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Cardiac

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal; pleasing; palmy.
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cardiac

English words defined with "cardiac": Acocanthera, Acokanthera, area of cardiac dullness, arterial pressure, artificial pacemaker, aspiration penumonia, atrioventricular bundle, atrioventricular nodal rhythm, atrioventricular trunk ♦ ballistocardiograph, Brevibloc, bundle of His ♦ cantering rhythm, cardiac arrest, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac cycle, cardiac glucoside, cardiac glycoside, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac massage, cardiac monitor, cardiac murmur, cardiac muscle, cardiac output, cardiac pacemaker, Cardiac passion, cardiac plexus, cardiac resuscitation, cardiac rhythm, cardiac sphincter, cardiac tamponade, cardiac valve, Cardiacal, Cardialgy, cardiogenic shock, cardiogram, cardiograph, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiospasm, Clary water, coronary care unit, CPR ♦ digitalin, digitalis, digitalis glycoside, digitoxin, digoxin ♦ ECG, EKG, electrocardiogram, ergotism, esmolol, Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot ♦ Fallot ♦ gallop rhythm, genus Acocanthera, genus Acokanthera ♦ heart massage ♦ ischemic anoxia, ischemic hypoxia ♦ kiss of life ♦ Lanoxin ♦ mouth-to-mouth resuscitation ♦ nodal rhythm ♦ pacemaker, premature ventricular contraction, Purkinje fiber, Purkinje network, Purkinje's system, Purkinje's tissue, PVC ♦ Quinidex, quinidine, Quinora ♦ shock, stagnant anoxia, stagnant hypoxia, strophanthin, Subpericardial ♦ truncus atrioventricularis ♦ valvotomy, valvular heart disease, valvulitis, valvulotomy, ventricular fibrillation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cardiac": Advanced Cardiac Life Support ♦ cardiac conduction system, Cardiac Glycosides, CARDIAC MONITOR TECHNICIAN, Cardiac Output, High, Cardiac Output, Low, cardiac pacing, Cardiac Volume ♦ diagnostic cardiac sonographe ♦ radiographer, cardiac catheterization ♦ SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION, Sudden cardiac death. (references)

Etymologies containing "cardiac": Diplocardiac. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cardiac" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (cardiac, heart).

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Modern Usage: Cardiac

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Cardiac Arrest (1980)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cardiac

Domain	Title
References	Cardiac Science, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Cardiac Care Medical Equipment in India: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Anesthesia for the Cardiac Patient (reference) Cardiac Nursing (reference) Cardiac Pacing and ICDs (reference) Cardiac SPECT Imaging (reference) Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Cardiac Advisor (reference) Cardiac Ultrasound Today (reference) Journal Of Cardiac Failure (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Basic Cardiac Auscultion (reference) Cardiac Arrest (reference) A Shock to the Heart: Treatment of Cardiac Arrest (reference) Cardiac Care and Recovery: A Self Healing Program (reference) Health Talks at The Cleveland Clinic Presents - Cardiac Care: Today and Tomorrow (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Cardiac Party (reference) Cardiac Relaxation - Healing Power (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cardiac

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Photo Album: Cardiac

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cardiac myocytes contain many tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii. Parasite.Credit: CDC.		VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies.Credit: CDC.
	VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies.Credit: CDC.		VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies.Credit: CDC.
	Postgraduates at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital are taught cardiac auscultation with the aid of a multi-channel stethoscope. / WHO/College of Medicine, University of Lagos photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		... a waiting room for cardiac patients taking part in a survey of cardiovascular diseases. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas..
	St. Frances Sanatorium for Cardiac Children, Roslyn, New York. Chapel interior.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cardiac

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Right-Heart Cardiac. (references)
		Cardiac function slows. (references)
		A cardiac catheterization. (references)
Business		For example, tests to analyze cardiac enzyme levels allow early diagnosis of heart attacks, thereby reducing hospitalization stays. (references)
		Such fields as teleradiology, dermatology, retinal visual imaging, and cardiac care are currently viewed as some of the most promising sub-specialties of telemedicine. (references)
Civil Liberties	Armenia	In January 2001, Vardanyan was moved to a Yerevan cardiac hospital because his health had deteriorated. (references)
Economic History	Vietnam	The best prospects for equipment sales are: 1) medical imaging equipment, 2) intensive care and monitoring equipment, 3) operating theater equipment, 4) equipment for treating cardiac and asthmatic conditions, and 5) diagnostic and laboratory equipment. (references)
	Pakistan	There is good market potential for antibiotics, vaccines, therapeutic medicines, analgesics, tranquilizers, hormones, blood pressure control drugs, anti-ulcerants, drugs for the treatment of cardiac conditions, cancer, psychiatric drugs, contraceptives and birth control prescriptions. (references)
Human Rights	Russia	Poor ventilation is thought to contribute to cardiac problems and lowered resistance to disease. (references)
	Mauritius	Kaya's death sparked 3 days of rioting during which police shot and killed three protesters, one police officer died of cardiac arrest, and shops, homes, and churches were burned and looted, resulting in an estimated $50 million (1,250 million rupees) in damages. (references)
	Switzerland	The Bern forensic institute found that his death from cardiac arrest was not the sole result of the beating by police officers but rather a combination of several factors, including stress, and police use of sedatives, tear gas, other chemicals used during Gomec's apprehension, and chronic heart disease. (references)
Travel	Indonesia	For emergency cardiac care, go to the cardiac emergency unit, not to the regular emergency room. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cardiac

"Cardiac" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.70% of the time. "Cardiac" is used about 256 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.7%	245	19,065
Noun (proper)	2.73%	7	133,076
Noun (singular)	1.56%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	256	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Cardiac

Country	Name
USA	Cardiac Pathways Corporation
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Cardiac

Expressions using "cardiac": Advanced Cardiac Life Support ♦ area of cardiac dullness ♦ Cardiac abnormality ♦ cardiac arrest ♦ cardiac arrhythmia ♦ Cardiac Care Facilities ♦ Cardiac catheterization ♦ cardiac condition ♦ cardiac conduction system ♦ cardiac cycle ♦ cardiac dead ♦ cardiac death ♦ cardiac defect ♦ cardiac dilatation ♦ cardiac disease ♦ cardiac enlargement ♦ cardiac glucoside ♦ cardiac glycoside ♦ Cardiac Glycosides ♦ cardiac index ♦ cardiac infarct ♦ cardiac infarction ♦ cardiac insufficiency ♦ cardiac massage ♦ cardiac monitor ♦ cardiac murmur ♦ cardiac muscle ♦ Cardiac output ♦ cardiac pacemaker ♦ cardiac pacing ♦ Cardiac passion ♦ cardiac plexus ♦ cardiac rate ♦ cardiac resuscitation ♦ cardiac rhythm ♦ cardiac sphincter ♦ Cardiac Surgical Procedures ♦ cardiac tamponade ♦ cardiac valve ♦ Cardiac Volume ♦ Cardiac wheel ♦ Sudden cardiac death. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cardiac": cardiac-bypass, cardiac-support.
	Ending with "cardiac": non-cardiac.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cardiac

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cardiac	219	cardiac disease	30
advanced cardiac life support	201	cardiac stents	29
cardiac diet	137	cardiac rhythm	29
cardiac arrest	130	birmingham cardiac diet	27
cardiac catheterization	104	cardiac mri	27
cardiac surgery	77	cardiac monitor	25
cardiac rehabilitation	72	cardiac catheter	25
cardiac stress test	69	cardiac anatomy	24
cardiac catherization	67	cardiac pacemaker	24
cardiac rehab	51	sudden cardiac arrest	22
cardiac science	47	cardiac asthma	22
cardiac ablation	46	cardiac risk	22
cardiac cath	46	cardiac stent	21
cardiac enzymes	46	cardiac drug	21
cardiac cycle	44	cardiac nursing	19
cardiac tamponade	40	cardiac bypass surgery	19
cardiac output	38	cardiac medication	18
cardiac arrhythmias	37	cardiac arrythmias	18
cardiac muscle	33	cardiac resynchronization	17
cardiac arrhythmia	32	cardiac arrythmia	17
		cardiac ischemia	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cardiac

Language		Translations for "cardiac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		innig (above-board, close, cordial, hearty, intimate, sincere, warm). (various references)

Albanian		kardiak, ilaç zemre, i zemrës. (various references)

Arabic		‏فم المغدة, ‏متعلق بفم المعدة, ‏قلبي ذو علاقة بالقلب. (various references)

Bulgarian		сърдечен (cheery, cordial, expansive, genial, hearty, kind, lusty, mellow, openhearted, pressing, warm), кардиален. (various references)

Chinese		心脏病. (various references)

Czech		srdeèní, kardiak. (various references)

Danish		hjerte- (cardial, cardiological, cordial, heart-, hearty, warm), cardiacus (cardial). (various references)

Dutch		hart- (cordial, heart-, hearty, warm), cardiaal (cardial). (various references)

Esperanto		kora (cordial, heart-, hearty), kor-. (various references)

Faeroese		hjartaligur (above-board, cordial, hearty, sincere, warm). (various references)

Farsi		فم المعدی , قلبی (Cordial, Heartfelt, Hearty), وابسته بدل . (various references)

Finnish		sydämeen liittyvä, kardiologinen (cardiological). (various references)

French		cardiaque (cardial), cordial. (various references)

Frisian		hertlik (cordial, hearty, warm). (various references)

German		kardial (cardial, cardiological), Herzmittel, herzkrank (heartsick). (various references)

Greek		καρδιακόσ, καρδιακός (cardial). (various references)

Hebrew		של �"לב, חול�" לב (heartsick). (various references)

Hungarian		szívvel kapcsolatos betegség, szív-. (various references)

Icelandic		hjartanlegur (cordial, hearty, warm). (various references)

Indonesian		penyakit jantung. (various references)

Italian		cardiaco (cardial, heart attack, of the heart). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心停止 (cardiac arrest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"ていし (cardiac arrest). (various references)

Korean		심장. (various references)

Manx		tallagh cree (cardiac murmur). (various references)

Norwegian		hjertelig (cordial, heartily, hearty, warm). (various references)

Papiamen		kordial (cordial, hearty, warm). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardiaccay

Polish		serdeczny (cordial, hearty, warm). (various references)

Portuguese		cardíaco (hearty, warm). (various references)

Romanian		cardiac (heart), mângâiere (caress, comfort, consolation, endearment, relief, solace, support). (various references)

Russian		сердечный (cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, kind, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		srčani. (various references)

Spanish		cardíaco (cardial). (various references)

Swedish		hjärt-. (various references)

Turkish		kâlp ile ilgili, kâlp ilacı, kâlp hastası, kâlp (cardio-, heart). (various references)

Ukranian		серцевий, хворий на серце, ліки для серця. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuốc kích thích tim rượu bổ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cardiac

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cardiac": cardiacs. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cardiac": intracardiac, noncardiac. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cardiac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadeac, cadia, caradic, Carday, cardi, cardiaca, cardiacs, cardiact, cardial, cardiax, cardic, cardies, Cardoza, cardpac, carducci, carida, Caridad, Caridi, Caridia, carnica, Cedria, Cerdic, Charniak, Claridad, cyriac, Pardiac, Sardial, Serdica. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cardiac"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cardiac" (pronounced kÄ"rdēa'k)
4	-d ē a' k	zodiac.
3	-ē a' k	amnesiac, insomniac, maniac, megalomaniac, nymphomaniac.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cardiac

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-r"
	-1 letter: acarid, cardia, cicada.
	-2 letters: acari, acrid, caird, circa, daric.
	-3 letters: acid, aria, arid, caca, cadi, caid, card, raia, raid.
	-4 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ai, ar, id.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-r"
	+1 letter: cardiacs, characid.
	+2 letters: acaricide, cadaveric, characids, circadian.
	+3 letters: acaricidal, acaricides, noncardiac, saccharide.
	+4 letters: calendrical, caricatured, chancroidal, diacritical, saccharides, tachycardia.
	+5 letters: accreditable, archdiocesan, bactericidal, catadioptric, crackbrained, disaccharide, incarcerated, intracardiac, revaccinated, saccharified, saccharoidal, tachycardias.
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