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CARDIAC CYCLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles
Example:
the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cardiac cycle" is a kind of...):
cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)
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