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Definition: Heart Failure |
Heart FailureNoun1. Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Loss of pumping ability by the heart, often accompanied by fatigue, breathlessness, and excess fluid accumulation in body tissues. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Symptoms include respiratory distress (dyspnea), especially when it is worsened by lying down (orthopnea), fatigue, weakness, episodes of severe shortness of breath at night (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea). Edema, especially of the legs, may occur. Enlargement of the heart (cardiomegaly) is one of the criteria for diagnosis.
In most cases when the term is used, especially when given as a cause of death, congestive heart failure (CHF) is meant.
Treatment can improve the condition by:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heart failure."
Synonym: Heart FailureSynonym: coronary failure (n). (additional references) |
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Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | It completelyrevolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years. |
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Health | In heart failure, this may result from excess fluid in the lungs. (references) | |
A drug called spironolactone used to treat congestive heart failure. (references) | ||
Listed below are some of the medications prescribed for heart failure. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | In most cases, deaths apparently due to torture or other mistreatment are ascribed to heart failure. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | She died the same day that she was moved to a hospital from Drapchi Prison, reportedly from respiratory and heart failure. (references) |
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Expressions using "heart failure": Congestive heart failure ♦ Diastolic heart failure ♦ Systolic heart failure. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "heart failure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pushim zemre, ndalim zemre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نوبة قلبية (heart attack), سكتة قلبية (stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърдечна недостатъчност (heart attack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | selhání srdce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hjertefejlceller (heart failure cells). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hartgebrekcellen (heart failure cells). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sydänhalvaus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arrêt du c"ur (stop of heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | herzversagen (cardiovascular collapse, cardiovascular failure), herzschlag (cardiac death, heart attack, heart death, heart rate, heartbeat, heartthrob). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγκοπή (faintness, syncopation, syncope, unconsciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי ספיקת "לב, "תקף לב (heart attack, seizure), "ום לב, רפיון לב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szívszélhûdés, szívbénulás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cuore polmonare (cor pulmonale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 衝心 , 心不全 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうし" (anxiety, burning oneself, cowardly, grief, heartbreak, humble position, impatience, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), し"ふぜ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | failleilys cree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earthay ailurefay insuficienţã cardiacã. (various references) паралич сердца. (various references) otkazivanje srca. (various references) insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva (congestive heart failure), células de la expectoración en la insuficiencia cardíaca (heart failure cells). (various references) hjärtsvikt, hjärtkollaps, hjärtförlamning. (various references) kâlp yetmezliği (cardiac insufficiency), kâlp sektesi, kâlp rahatsızlığı. (various references) остановка серця. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Heart Failure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heartfailure. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-i-l-r-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: earthlier. | |
-4 letters: arterial, earthier, falterer, faultier, featlier, filature, filterer, heartier, latherer, laureate, refilter, retailer, ruralite, thurifer, ureteral, urethrae, urethral. | |
-5 letters: airfare, alerter, alterer, atelier, aureate, earlier, failure, farther, feather, feature, ferrate, ferrite, ferrule, fertile, ferulae, filaree, flirter, flutier, frailer, fruiter, fuehrer, further, haltere, hateful, haulier, heftier, hetaera, hetaira, lathier, leafier, learier, leather, luthier, ratafee, realter, reflate, refutal, refuter, relater, retrial, tearful, tearier, terefah, trailer, trehala, trifler, turfier, uralite, urethra. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 72 74 46 61 69 6C 75 72 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a r t   F a i l u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0072 0074 0046 0061 0069 006C 0075 0072 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271678486240677578878471 |
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