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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 cardiopulmonary arrest
      n : 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 [syn: asystole, cardiac
          arrest]