heart failure

noun2

1. •
   The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
2. •
   The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.

   • Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure. — 1983