cardioplegia
Meaning of cardioplegia
- the deliberate temporary stopping of the heart, typically to permit heart surgery.
the procedure is performed on a beating heart, thus avoiding cardioplegia
late 19th century (in the sense ‘paralysis of the heart’): from cardio- + -plegia.
Information about cardioplegia
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of cardioplegia
car-dio-ple-gia
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- cardioplegia is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with cardioplegia
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