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.
Cardiac cirrhosis: Your heart is a pump that pushes blood throughout your body. When your heart doesn't pump well, blood backs up into the liver. 1  This congestion causes damage to your liver. 2  It may become swollen and painful. 3  Later it becomes hard and less painful.