The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
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.
A loss of consciousness when someone faints.
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.