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.
This can result in severe narrowing of the arteries leading to the heart or a sudden blockage of blood flow through these coronary arteries. Cardiac ischemia is caused when the supply of blood reaching heart tissue is not enough to meet the heart's needs. When not enough blood gets to the heart, it can cause pain in the chest (angina), shortness of breath, sweating, and other symptoms.