The heart (or cardiac) is an organ that pumps blood, maintaining its flow through the circulatory system.
In 2327, Jean-Luc Picard was stabbed through the heart by a Nausicaan during a bar brawl on Starbase Earhart and nearly died. (TNG: "Tapestry")
On Starbase 515, the cardiac unit was located in surgical suite 3, in room 03-1452. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")
In a Klingon ritual suicide a Hegh'bat is plunged into the heart. (TNG : "Ethics")
Kang, Kor, Koloth, and Curzon Dax swore a blood oath to cut out and eat the heart of the the Albino. (DS9: "Blood Oath")
According to Klingon mythology the Klingon heart was forged with fire and steel and beat so loudly that none could stand before it. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited...")
When Tom Paris was affected by hyper-evolution caused by his Warp 10 flight, he grew a second heart. (VOY: "Threshold")
Patients with heart complications
Heart medications and treatments
- Benjisidrine
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Cardiostimulator
- Cordrazine
- Tricordrazine
- Trinephedrine