ERA. 1  baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; he played baseball in high school; there was a baseball game on every empty lot; there was a desire for National League ball in the area; play ball!.
The contraction of the heart muscle starts in the two atria, which push the blood into the ventricles. Then the walls of the ventricles squeeze together and force the blood out into the arteries: the aorta to the body and the pulmonary artery to the lungs.
Heart failure happens when your heart muscle isn't pumping enough blood to the rest of your body. Because the heart isn't pumping as it should, fluids can start to build up. This build-up of fluid is called congestion. This is why we call the condition congestive heart failure.