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

1 sense of cardiac cycle

Sense 1
cardiac cycle -- (the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles; "the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram")
       => cycle, oscillation -- (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons")