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The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 left ventricular failure, heart failure in which the left ventricle, the chamber that pumps blood to the body's tissues, fails to contract forcefully enough to maintain a normal output of blood. Fluid accumlates in the lungs because of the weakened blood ...
October 1, 1996; The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia

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