心しん臓ぞう麻ま痺ひ

noun

heart failure; cardiac arrest

Medical term for the heart stopping or failing to pump effectively. In everyday Japanese, 心不全 (しんふぜん) is the more precise clinical term for chronic heart failure, while 心臓麻痺 often implies sudden cardiac arrest.

• 祖そ父ふは心しん臓ぞう麻ま痺ひで亡なくなった。

  My grandfather died of heart failure.

• 心しん臓ぞう麻ま痺ひの応おう急きゅう