cardiac
adjective /ˈkɑːdiæk/
/ˈkɑːrdiæk/
[only before noun] (medical)- connected with the heart or heart disease
- cardiac disease/failure/surgery
- to suffer cardiac arrest (= an occasion when a person’s heart stops temporarily or permanently)
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCardiac is used with these nouns:- failure
- massage
- monitoring
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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.