Heart Failure Â». Heart failure is the pathophysiologic state in which the heart, via an abnormality of cardiac function (detectable or not), fails to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues and/or pumps only from an abnormally elevated diastolic filling pressure.
(Physiology) a glandular organ of vertebrates, consisting in man of two lobes situated below the thyroid. In early life it produces lymphocytes and is thought to influence certain immunological responses.
Â· just now. Report Abuse. The liver is the largest gland and the largest internal organ in the human body. A gland is defined as any group of cells that manufactures and releases substances for use somewhere else in the body.