CARDIAC OUTPUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiac output mean? 

• CARDIAC OUTPUT (noun)
  The noun CARDIAC OUTPUT has 1 sense:

1. the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time

  Familiarity information: CARDIAC OUTPUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIAC OUTPUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quarts a minute

Hypernyms ("cardiac output" is a kind of...):

flow; flow rate; rate of flow (the amount of fluid that flows in a given time)

 Context examples 

This agent also inhibits the phosphorylation of myosin protein and chelation of trace metals required for smooth muscle contraction, resulting in an increase in heart rate, stroke volume and cardiac output.

(Hydralazine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologically high percentage of blood that is forced from the heart ventricle to produce cardiac output.

(Hyperdynamic Ventricular Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also causes inhibition of phosphorylation of myosin protein or chelation of trace metals required for smooth muscle contraction, thereby resulting in an increase in heart rate, stroke volume and cardiac output.

(Hydralazine, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to a reduction in cardiac output and lowers blood pressure.

(Betaxolol, NCI Thesaurus)

Exaprolol competitively binds to and blocks beta-adrenergic receptors in the heart and vascular smooth muscle, thereby causing negative chronotropic and inotropic effects leading to a reduction in cardiac output.

(Exaprolol, NCI Thesaurus)

Shock resulting from insufficient blood volume for the maintenance of adequate cardiac output, blood pressure and tissue perfusion.

(Hypovolemic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical device that increases myocardial oxygen perfusion while at the same time increasing cardiac output.

(Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Moderately less than normal amount of blood that is forced from the heart ventricle to produce cardiac output.

(Moderately Abnormal Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

The usual amount of blood that is forced from the heart ventricle to produce cardiac output.

(Normal Ventricular Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

Slightly less than normal amount of blood that is forced from the heart ventricle to produce cardiac output.

(Mildly Abnormal Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)