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Cardiac arrest

//ˈkɑɹdiˌæk əˈɹɛst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood. countable, uncountable

    "She went a few months before Sukumar died, a cardiac arrest in the middle of an afternoon nap, her rickety heart beating one moment, and then no more."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet

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