connected with the heart or heart disease心脏的；心脏病的- cardiac disease/failure/surgery心脏病；心力衰竭；心脏手术
- to suffer cardiac arrest (= an occasion when a person’s heart stops temporarily or permanently)心脏停搏
Topics Illnessc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCardiac is used with these nouns: - failure
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See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting heart disease): from French cardiaque or Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos, from kardia ‘heart or upper opening of the stomach’. The adjective dates from the early 17th cent.