HEART FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart failure mean? 

• HEART FAILURE (noun)
  The noun HEART FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

  Familiarity information: HEART FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

coronary failure; heart failure

Hypernyms ("heart failure" is a kind of...):

failure (loss of ability to function normally)

cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart failure"):

congestive heart failure (inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues)

heart attack (a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function)

 Context examples 

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited heart muscle disease that may result in arrhythmia, heart failure, and sudden death.

(Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

But it can cause serious problems such as stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure.

(Blood Pressure Medicines, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Sudden weight gain can be due to medicines, thyroid problems, heart failure, and kidney disease.

(Body Weight, NIH)

These mice did not have the gene changes that lead to heart failure as seen in mice lacking GR, while simultaneously exhibiting a gain in function of genes that protect the heart.

(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)

Previous research has suggested that problems with mitochondrial energy production may play a role in heart failure associated with diabetes.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When someone has had a heart attack or has heart failure, the heart isn’t able to contract with enough force to meet an increased energy demand.

(Engineered protein restores heart function, NIH)

Heart failure means the heart can't pump blood well to the rest of the body.

(Coronary Artery Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The date of the beginning of the first ever occurrence of heart failure.

(Date of First Ever Onset of Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

As other cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction are in decline as causes of mortality, the heart failure problem becomes increasingly urgent.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Inappropriate increases in PGC-1a activity have been linked to a number of pathological conditions including heart failure and diabetes.

(PGC1a Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)