cardiac
adjective /ˈkɑːdiæk/
/ˈkɑːrdiæk/
[only before noun] (medical- 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
Collocations DictionaryCardiac is used with these nouns:- failure
- massage
- monitoring
- …
词源late 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. - cardiac disease/failure/surgery