Search Result for "cardiopulmonary_arrest":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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;
[syn: asystole, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cardiopulmonary arrest
    n 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 [syn: asystole, cardiac
         arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest]