Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asystole

1 sense of asystole

Sense 1
asystole, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest -- (absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death)
       => pathology -- (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)