Breakdown
Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.
Cardiac arrest and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cardiac arrest" instead a noun "Breakdown".
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest noun - Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.
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Breakdown and cardiac arrest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun phrase "Cardiac arrest".
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- At the time of his death in January 1990, he had been institutionalized, and after an episode of excited delirium syndrome/exhaustive psychosis (literally a massive nervous breakdown that caused cardiac arrest), medical personnel was unable to revive him.
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