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Definition: Cardiac Massage |
Cardiac MassageNoun1. An emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or (during surgery) directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Rhythmic squeezing of the heart in cardiac arrest in order to stimulate it to restart its beating or circulation. Done surgically by opening the chest wall, it is called open cardiac massage; Done from the outside by special manoeuvres without opening the chest, it is called external c. m. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Cardiac MassageSynonym: heart massage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cardiac Massage |
| English words defined with "cardiac massage": cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR ♦ kiss of life ♦ mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. (references) |
| 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 |
cardiac massage | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cardiac massage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | ekstern hjertemassage (closed chest cardiac massage, Kouwenhoven heart massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitwendige hartmassage (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | massage cardiaque externe (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Closed chest cardiac massage (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξωτερική μάλαξη καρδιάς (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | closed chest cardiac massage (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardiaccay assagemay massagem cardíaca externa (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) masaje cardíaco externo (closed chest cardiac massage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-d-e-g-i-m-r-s-s" | |
-5 letters: academias, academics, acariases, ascarides, assagaied, camisades, cardcases, decagrams, decigrams, disgraces, mascaraed, massacred, misgrades, smaragdes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 64 69 61 63 4D 61 73 73 61 67 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01100001 01100011 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i a c   M a s s a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 0061 0063 004D 0061 0073 0073 0061 0067 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678470756769247678585677371 |
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