absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death
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Cardiac arrest kills more than three hundred thousand people in the United States every year. 在美国，每一年有超过三十万人由于心搏停止而丧失性命。
