Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

congestive heart failure

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

Syllables: con-ges-tive -heart -fail-ure
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

congestive heart failures (plural)

Questions

What does congestive heart failure mean?: A syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues.

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