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cardiac output

Pronunciation:  'kârdee`ak 'awt`pût

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 Definition: [n]  the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time; "a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quarts a minute"
 
 See Also: flow, flow rate, rate of flow

 

 

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 Definition: total amount of blood being pumped by the heart over a particular period of time.
 

 

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