In most cases, you become chronically ill for a long time; in the worst cases, after that long time, the wall of your heart weakens and one day just gives way.
DCM is a condition in which the heart weakens and becomes dilated, resulting in inefficient blood pumping to other organs.
As the heart weakens, the body temperature begins to drop below 100.
The tunnel was joined Oct. 29, 1924, but no celebration took place as Holland had died two days before, his heart weakened by work.
C.A.D. occurs when fatty deposits, or plaque, choke off the flow of blood in arteries supplying the heart, weakening the muscle and often causing chest pain.
Winston, now 78, loses consciousness, and when he comes round, he has very little sensation on one side, his speech is severely impaired and his heart weakened.
Instead, a heart weakened by age, or by damage from a heart attack or some other disease, becomes flabbier as it struggles to push blood out to the rest of the body.
In 1991, Mr. Casey was told that he had a life-threatening disease, amyloidosis, which caused his liver to produce an abnormal protein that built up in the walls of his heart, weakening it.
"About Alice" is an unabashed love letter to Trillin's wife, Alice, who died in 2001 at the age of 63 while awaiting a heart transplant, after a battle with lung cancer 25 years previously had left her heart weakened by radiation.
The couple had battled drug addiction for years, and Mrs. Rausing's mother, Susan Kemeny, told reporters that she believed her daughter's heart, weakened by decades of drug abuse, had simply stopped and that her son-in-law was not responsible for her death.
The heart, weakened, is unable to clear fluid from the lungs, and the terrified patient begins to slowly drown.
