cardiopulmonary
adjective
cardiopulmonary is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to both the heart and the lungs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-P-U-L-M-O-N-A-R-Y and has 7 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cardiopulmonary mean?
adjective
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Of or pertaining to both the heart and the lungs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cardiopulmonary?
Cardiopulmonary has 7 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cardiopulmonary?
Cardiopulmonary appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).
Cardiopulmonary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Of, or pertaining to the heart and the lungs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cardiopulmonaire |
| Portuguese | cardiopulmonar |
| Spanish | cardiopulmonar |
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 cardiopulmonary come from?
From cardio- + pulmonary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).