cardioplegia
noun
cardioplegia is a noun meaning “The deliberate, temporary cessation of cardiac activity before heart surgery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-P-L-E-G-I-A, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cardioplegia is cardioplegias.
What does cardioplegia mean?
noun
- 1
The deliberate, temporary cessation of cardiac activity before heart surgery
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cardioplegia
- cardioplegias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cardioplegia?
Cardioplegia appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cardioplegia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense deliberate cessation of cardiac activity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cardioplejia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cardioplegia come from?
From cardio- + -plegia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).