"sick heart" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to the feelings of someone who is emotionally hurt, or has suffered a great deal of pain. For example: After all the betrayal, her sick heart could no longer trust anyone.
And "The Sick Heart," from 1939, is wild, a seldom-seen precursor to Philip Guston, early Peter Saul and Elizabeth Murray.
Preoperative diagnosis was crude in 1954, and many of the early open-heart pioneers had opened a sick heart only to find lesions they had never seen -- never mind knew how to repair.
"The heart is weak in this country, the heart is sick, and unless we treat the heart I don't think we can have the other organs with a sick heart," said one lawmaker, Maulavi Sheikh Ahmad.
As Jian discovers the machinations of the university's bureaucrats with regard to his own life, he decides to join the other students in the capital -- not, as he puts it, out of any "grand purpose or dream of democracy and freedom," but simply to "plunge a knife" into Beijing, "the sick heart of this country".
Such a device is being developed by Abiomed, but Joseph Rogers, the Duke University cardiologist who ran the trial, said during the press conference that most very sick heart failure patients would do better with a left-ventricular device like the HeartMate than with a full replacement of the heart.
Every first-year med student knows that this is the tempo of a sick heart.
They hoped to make a new life, but faced another, more personal battle, over sick hearts and failing health.
As Wood explained, "If even the healthiest hearts after a marathon leak a heart enzyme or demonstrate reduced pumping function, those with sick hearts will have trouble".
As they report in the 16 February Physical Review Letters, they found that the wavelet coefficients for batches of 16 to 32 beats were clearly different for healthy versus sick hearts, and there was no overlap at all between the two groups.
This information is enough to illuminate the rhythmic differences between healthy and sick hearts.
In 1935 he was raised to the peerage and appointed governor-general of Canada, which was the setting for his novel, Sick Heart River (1941; U.S. title, Mountain Meadow).
