cardiac massage
heart massage | an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest |
| heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
| closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
| open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
spotted eagle ray
spotted ray
Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
spotted antbird
Hylophylax naevioides | a kind of antbird |
spotted flycatcher
Muscicapa striata
Muscicapa grisola | common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage |
spotted owl
Strix occidentalis | a large owl of North America found in forests from British Columbia to central Mexico, has dark brown plumage and a heavily spotted chest |
spotted salamander fire salamander
Salamandra maculosa | European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots |
| spotted salamander Ambystoma maculatum | glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots |
Chihuahuan spotted whiptail
Cnemidophorus exsanguis | having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots, upland lizard of United States southwest and Mexico |
woodpecker
peckerwood
pecker | bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects |
green woodpecker
Picus viridis | woodpecker of Europe and western Asia |
| downy woodpecker | small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill |
ivorybill
ivory-billed woodpecker
Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
redheaded woodpecker
redhead Melanerpes erythrocephalus | black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck |
spotted crake
Porzana porzana | Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes |
spotted sandpiper
Actitis macularia | common North American sandpiper |
| liver-spotted dalmatian | a brown-spotted dalmatian |
spotted hyena
laughing hyena
Crocuta crocuta | African hyena noted for its distinctive howl |
spotted lynx
Lynx pardina | of southern Europe |
jackass bat
spotted bat
Euderma maculata | a large bat of the southwestern United States having spots and enormous ears |
two-spotted ladybug
Adalia bipunctata | red ladybug with a black spot on each wing |
red-spotted purple
Limenitis astyanax | similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces |
| heart urchin | sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell |
spotted skunk
little spotted skunk
Spilogale putorius | small skunk with a marbled black and white coat, of United States and Mexico |
Australian arowana
Dawson River salmon
saratoga
spotted barramundi
spotted bonytongue
Scleropages leichardti | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
spotted sunfish
stumpknocker
Lepomis punctatus | inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida, esteemed panfish |
Kentucky black bass
spotted black bass
Micropterus pseudoplites | a variety of black bass |
spotted weakfish
spotted sea trout
spotted squeateague
Cynoscion nebulosus | weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States |
| artificial heart | a pump that replaces the natural heart |
cardiac monitor
heart monitor | a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart |
| heart | a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it, he led the queen of hearts, hearts were trumps |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
Jarvik heart
Jarvik artificial heart | a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success |
sodium thiopental
phenobarbital
phenobarbitone
Luminal
purple heart | a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative |
| heart spirit | an inclination or tendency of a certain kind, he had a change of heart |
cardiac rhythm
heart rhythm | the rhythm of a beating heart |
heart mettle nerve
spunk | the courage to carry on, he kept fighting on pure spunk, you haven't got the heart for baseball |
heart
pump
ticker | the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs, its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body, he stood still, his heart thumping wildly |
| athlete's heart | enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance |
| biauriculate heart | a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles |
cardiac muscle
heart muscle | the muscle tissue of the heart, adapted to continued rhythmic contraction |
| ventricle heart ventricle | a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries |
atrium cordis
atrium of the heart | the upper chamber of each half of the heart |
right atrium
right atrium of the heart
atrium dextrum | the right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus |
left atrium
left atrium of the heart
atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
heart valve
cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
heart
bosom | the locus of feelings and intuitions, in your heart you know it is true, her story would melt your bosom |