heart failure

See also: heart-failure

English

Alternative forms

• heart-failure

Noun

heart failure (countable and uncountable, plural heart failures)

1. (cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.

   Synonyms: congestive cardiac failure, congestive heart failure

   Hyponyms: HFrEF (heart failure due to reduced ejection fraction), HFpEF (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction)

2. (cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.

Translations

chronic inability of the heart

• Azerbaijani: ürək çatışmazlığı
• Catalan: fallida cardíaca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心衰竭 (zh) (xīnshuāijié), 心臟衰竭／心脏衰竭 (zh) (xīnzàng shuāijié), 心力衰竭 (zh) (xīnlì shuāijié)

• Czech: srdeční selhání n
• Danish: hjerteinsufficiens c, hjertesvigt n
• Dutch: hartfalen (nl) n
• Esperanto: kora malsufiĉo
• Estonian: südamepuudulikkus
• Finnish: sydämen vajaatoiminta
• French: insuffisance cardiaque f
• Galician: insuficiencia cardíaca f
• German: Herzschwäche (de) f, Herzinsuffizienz (de) f
• Greek: καρδιακή ανεπάρκεια f (kardiakí anepárkeia)
• Hungarian: szívelégtelenség (hu)
• Indonesian: gagal jantung
• Italian: insufficienza cardiaca f, scompenso cardiaco m
• Japanese: 心不全 (ja) (しんふぜん, shinfuzen)
• Kazakh: жүрек жетіспеушілігі (jürek jetıspeuşılıgı)
• Malay: lemah jantung
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjertesvikt m

  Nynorsk: hjartesvikt m or f

• Persian: نارسایی قلب (nâresâyi e qalb)
• Polish: niewydolność serca (pl) f
• Portuguese: insuficiência cardíaca f
• Romanian: insuficiență cardiacă (ro) f
• Russian: серде́чная недоста́точность f (serdéčnaja nedostátočnostʹ), серде́чная сла́бость f (serdéčnaja slábostʹ)
• Spanish: insuficiencia cardiaca f
• Swedish: hjärtsvikt c, hjärtinsufficiens c
• Turkish: kalp yetmezliği
• Ukrainian: серце́ва недоста́тність f (sercéva nedostátnistʹ)

cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest — see also cardiac arrest

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心臟停搏／心脏停搏 (xīnzàng tíngbó), 心臟驟停／心脏骤停 (zh) (xīnzàng zhòutíng), 心搏驟停／心搏骤停 (xīnbó zhòutíng), 心搏骤停) (xīnbó zhòutíng)

• Danish: hjertestop (da) n, hjerteslag n
• Finnish: sydämenpysähdys (fi)
• German: Herzversagen (de) n
• Greek: συγκοπή (el) f (sygkopí)
• Plautdietsch: Hoatschlach m
• Russian: остано́вка се́рдца f (ostanóvka sérdca), инфа́ркт (ru) m (infárkt), инфа́ркт миока́рда m (infárkt miokárda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: infarkt (sh) m, zatajenje srca n, infarkt miokarda m

• Spanish: paro cardiaco m
• Tamil: மாரடைப்பு (ta) (māraṭaippu)

See also

• cardiac arrest
• heart attack