Organism Function
cardiac volume
car·di·ac vol·ume
Subclass of:
Hemodynamics
Definitions related to cardiac volume:
  • The volume of the HEART, usually relating to the volume of BLOOD contained within it at various periods of the cardiac cycle. The amount of blood ejected from a ventricle at each beat is STROKE VOLUME.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (intracardiac volume) Volume of the heart, relating to the volume of blood contained within it at various periods of the cardiac cycle.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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