Asystole – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Asystole
In medicine,
asystole , colloquially known as
flatline, is a state of no
cardiac electrical activity, hence no contractions of the
myocardium and no cardiac output or blood flow. Asystole is one of the conditions that may be used for a medical practitioner to certify
clinical or
legal death.
asystole
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
(synonym) cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest
(hypernym) pathology
Asystole
(n.)
A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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asystole
noun
state where the heart has stopped beating
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