Usually means: Inability of heart to pump effectively.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word heart failure:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. heart failure: Merriam-Webster
  2. heart failure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heart failure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heart failure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heart failure: Vocabulary.com
  6. heart-failure: Wordnik
  7. heart failure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heart-failure, heart failure: Wiktionary
  9. heart failure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. heart failure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. heart failure: Dictionary.com
  12. Heart Failure, Heart failure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. heart failure: Rhymezone
  14. heart failure: FreeDictionary.org
  15. heart failure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. heart failure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. heart failure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heart failure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heart failure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. heart failure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Failure, heart, Heart failure: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Heart failure: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  7. Heart failure: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  8. heart failure: Medical dictionary
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Failure, heart, Heart failure: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See heart_failures as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heart failure)

noun:  (cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
noun:  (cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.

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