CARDIOPULMONARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiopulmonary mean? 

• CARDIOPULMONARY (adjective)
  The adjective CARDIOPULMONARY has 1 sense:

1. of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions

  Familiarity information: CARDIOPULMONARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIOPULMONARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cardiopulmonary; cardiorespiratory

Context example:

cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Pertainym:

heart (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)

lung (either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood)

 Context examples 

A type of advance directive in which a person states that healthcare providers should not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restarting the heart) if his or her heart or breathing stops.

(DNR order, NCI Dictionary)

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is for people whose hearts or breathing has stopped and the Heimlich maneuver is for people who are choking.

(First Aid, NIH)

Running at a trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise.

(Jogging, NCI Thesaurus)

A cardiopulmonary disorder characterized by systemic arterial hypoxemia secondary to pulmonary hypertension and extrapulmonary right to left shunting across the foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus.

(Persistent Fetal Circulation, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be idiopathic, hereditary, or associated with a wide range of diseases, including cardiopulmonary disorders and malignant neoplasms.

(Digital Clubbing, NCI Thesaurus)

If you know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you could save a life.

(CPR, NIH)

You should give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a person having SCA until defibrillation can be done.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Study of the functions and activities of the cardiopulmonary system as a whole or of any of its parts.

(Cardiopulmonary Physiology, NCI Thesaurus)

It appears early in life and is not associated with cardiopulmonary or neuromuscular abnormalities.

(Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

There is no evidence of cardiopulmonary disease present.

(Congenital Methemoglobinemia, NCI Thesaurus)