Medical Definition of Cardiac contractility

1. A measure of cardiac pump performance, the degree to which muscle fibres can shorten when activated by a stimulus independent of preload and afterload. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac Contractility

cardiac albuminuria
cardiac alternation
cardiac arrest
cardiac arrests
cardiac arrhythmia
cardiac asthma
cardiac ballet
cardiac blood pool imaging
cardiac care facilities
cardiac catheterisation
cardiac cell
cardiac cirrhosis
cardiac competence
cardiac contractility (current term)
cardiac cycle
cardiac decompression
cardiac depressor reflex
cardiac diuretic
cardiac dropsy
cardiac dyspnea
cardiac dysrhythmia
cardiac enlargement
cardiac enzyme
cardiac failure
cardiac fibrous skeleton
cardiac ganglia
cardiac gating
cardiac gland

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