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Heart failure   /hɑrt fˈeɪljər/   Listen
Heart failure

noun
1.
Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions.  Synonym: coronary failure.



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"Heart failure" Quotes from Famous Books



... the back room. Luckily there was a doctor on the platform. It was heart failure, of course, with brain prostration. We managed to get him home, and Susie Hallin and I sat up. He was delirious all night; but yesterday he rallied, and last night he begged us to move him out of London if we could. So we got two doctors and an invalid carriage, and ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... your life we'll buy! I wisht the papers was all signed up and in your inside pocket right now, Dilly. I'm going to get heart failure the worst kind if there's any hitch. Lord, ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... hustle any more than I am hustling," panted poor Jimmy. "Do you want me to drop down of heart failure or something ...
— The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice - or, Solving a Wireless Mystery • Allen Chapman

... "Exactly, Mrs. Byng. I don't say that the expert couldn't find what the cause of death was, if suspicion was aroused; but it could be managed so that 'heart failure' or some such silly verdict would be given, because there was no sign of violence, or of injury ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... nearly a gross of Casey's Liver Regulator. Whether the senator's demise was due to his strenuous efforts to deplete this generous supply has never been made known, but I very much doubt if the doctor, who attributed his death to heart failure was familiar with these facts ...
— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman



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