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
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCardiac is used with these nouns:- failure
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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.