The word cardioplegia combines the Greek cardio meaning the heart, and plegia paralysis. Technically, this means arresting or stopping the heart so that surgical procedures can be done in a still and bloodless field. Most commonly, however, the word cardioplegia refers to the solution used to bring about asystole of the heart, or heart paralysis. The main goals of hypothermic cardioplegia are:
4. to furnish or decorate with a tuft or tufts. 5. to arrange in a tuft or tufts. 6. to draw together (a cushion, mattress, etc.) by passing a thread through at regular intervals, the depressions thus produced usu. being ornamented with tufts or buttons.
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache. 2. Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.