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 |
hairy-legged vampire bat
Diphylla ecaudata | similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus, of tropical America including southern California and Texas |
| heart urchin | sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell |
| 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 |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
Order of the Purple Heart
Purple Heart | a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action |
| heart-to-heart | an intimate talk in private, he took me aside for a little heart-to-heart |
| broken heart | devastating sorrow and despair, he is recovering from a broken heart, a broken heart languishes here |
affection
affectionateness
fondness
tenderness heart warmness
warmheartedness
philia | a positive feeling of liking, he had trouble expressing the affection he felt, the child won everyone's heart, the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home |
| heart | a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal), a five-pound beef heart will serve six |
| artichoke heart | the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower |
heart cherry
oxheart
oxheart cherry | large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh |
bullock's heart
Jamaica apple | large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp |
center centre middle
heart
eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
Alabama
Heart of Dixie
Camellia State
AL | a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico, one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War |
| bleeding heart | someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged |
cardiologist
heart specialist
heart surgeon | a specialist in cardiology, a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart |
bullock's heart
bullock's heart tree
bullock heart
Annona reticulata | small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit |
hairy darling pea
Swainsona greyana
Swainsona grandiflora | shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers |
| heartleaf heart-leaf Asarum virginicum | evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves, Virginia to South Carolina |
| heartleaf heart-leaf Asarum shuttleworthii | wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves, West Virginia to Alabama |
bleeding heart
lyreflower
lyre-flower
Dicentra spectabilis | garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers |
heart-leaved aster
Aster cordifolius | perennial wood aster of eastern North America |
hairy golden aster
prairie golden aster
Heterotheca villosa
Chrysopsis villosa | hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters, found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States, sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis |
large crabgrass
hairy finger grass
Digitaria sanguinalis | a European forage grass grown for hay, a naturalized weed in United States |
mockernut
mockernut hickory
black hickory white-heart hickory
big-bud hickory
Carya tomentosa | smooth-barked North American hickory with to leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut |
hairy willowherb
codlins-andream
Epilobium hirsutum | plant of Europe and Asia having purplished flowers and hairy stems and leaves, introduced into North America |
hairy vetch
hairy tare
Vicia villosa | European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops |