cardiology
noun
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The Heart of Cardiology
The root card- (closely related to cord) shows up in many heart-related words. Cardiologists frequently find themselves studying cardiograms, the charts of heart activity, made by machines called cardiographs. Heart attacks, and deaths caused by them, have both declined as a result of better medical emergency procedures, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and a decline in smoking. But the factors likely to actually improve heart health, such as better diets and more cardiovascular exercise (exercise, such as running, that improves the heart and blood vessels), haven't made any progress at all. So we should all be prepared to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (an emergency procedure done on someone whose heart has stopped, to get the heart and lungs working again).
Example Sentences
Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022 Some hospitals were still in decrepit, post-Soviet condition, but others were being renovated to European standards, with state-of-the-art cardiology facilities and MRI machines. George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Headlines from the Free Press archives herald O'Neill as a pioneer in the field of interventional cardiology. Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2022 A year later, the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium, a quality-improvement group of hospitals, agreed to join the study, said founder Dr. Michael Gaies, now medical director of Cincinnati Children's acute care cardiology unit. Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022 The hospital was also ranked third for both geriatrics and neurology/neurosurgery, fourth for both orthopedics and pulmonology/lung surgery, and fifth for both cardiology/heart surgery and gastroenterology/GI surgery. Julie Washington, cleveland, 26 July 2022 And then, about 30 minutes after the baraat started, the groom dismounted in front of the hotel, and went to greet the family and friends of his bride, Prakriti Gaba, a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 To a person, scientists expressed eagerness for better studies, better funding, better participation, with urgency bubbling up from specialists in cardiology, neuroscience, epidemiology, pulmonology, and immunology. Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022 In its lawsuit, St. Francis Hospital says Hartford HealthCare brought in two dozen surgeons and specialists in hematology, oncology, cardiology and neurology over the last four years. Stephen Singer, courant.com, 16 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
International Scientific Vocabulary
1837, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
cardiology
noun