CARDIAC CYCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiac cycle mean? 

• CARDIAC CYCLE (noun)
  The noun CARDIAC CYCLE has 1 sense:

1. the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles

  Familiarity information: CARDIAC CYCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIAC CYCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram

Hypernyms ("cardiac cycle" is a kind of...):

cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)

 Context examples 

Measuring successive phases of individual cycles in repetitive processes, such as the cardiac cycle, and then determining quantitative markers from this set.

(Phase Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The electrical axis of the heart is a term used to describe the mean direction and magnitude of electrical impulses generated by the heart during the cardiac cycle.

(Normal Axis Deviation by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The time interval between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave in the cardiac cycle as corrected with a non-specified correction formula.

(Corrected QT Interval, NCI Thesaurus)

Ordinal of cardiac cycle within an acquisition.

(Beat Number, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)