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Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Definition: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Noun

1. Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Synonyms: asystole (n), cardiac arrest (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Specialty definitions using "cardiopulmonary arrest": Advanced Cardiac Life SupportLightning Injuries. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Death can occur from pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, or sudden cardiopulmonary arrest in such patients. (references)

Breathing problems such as aspiration, stridor (high-pitched breathing sounds due to airway obstruction), or cardiopulmonary arrest are common causes of death. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cardiopulmonary arrest

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cardiopulmonary Arrest


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 64 69 6F 70 75 6C 6D 6F 6E 61 72 79      41 72 72 65 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101111 01110000 01110101 01101100 01101101 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#105 &#111 &#112 &#117 &#108 &#109 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 006F 0070 0075 006C 006D 006F 006E 0061 0072 0079      0041 0072 0072 0065 0073 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767847075818287787981806784912358484718586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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