Karst terrane: landscape underlain by soluble bedrock, typically limestone, with a suite of distinctive features such as caves that are related to the solubility of the bedrock. Features that characterize karst terranes: 1  caves, and cavernous development, subsurface drainage.
Left-sided heart failure is a life-threatening condition in which the left side of the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body.eft-sided heart failure is a life-threatening condition in which the left side of the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body.
This classification may help distinguish causes in terms of their impact on normal heart physiology, heart failure can also be thought of clinically as right- versus left-sided heart failure.