| cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic | A myocardial disease characterised by hypertrophy, involving mainly the interventricular septum, interfering with left ventricular emptying. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| cardiomyopathy, restrictive | Myocardial disease in which the ventricular walls are excessively rigid, impeding ventricular filling; it is marked by abnormal diastolic function but by normal or nearly normal systolic function. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cardiomyoplasty | An operation that uses stimulated latissimus dorsi muscle (skeletal muscle ventricle) to assist cardiac function. The latissimus dorsi muscle is mobilised from the chest wall and moved into the thorax through the bed of the resected 2nd or 3rd rib. The muscle is then wrapped around the left and right ventricles and stimulated to contract during cardiac systole by means of an implanted burst-stimulator. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cardiomyotomy | Synonym: oesophagomyotomy. Origin: cardio-+ G. Mys, muscle, + tome, cutting (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardionatrin | Synonym: atrial natriuretic peptide. Origin: cardio-+ Mod. L. Natrium, sodium, + suffix -in, material (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardionecrosis | Necrosis of the myocardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardionector | Archaic term sometimes used for conducting system of heart. Origin: cardio-+ L. Necto, to join (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardionephric | Relating to the heart and the kidney. Synonym: cardionephric, nephrocardiac, renicardiac. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioneural | Relating to the nervous control of the heart. Origin: cardio-+ G. Neuron, nerve (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioneurosis | Anxiety concerning the state of the heart, as a result of palpitation, chest pain, or other symptoms not due to heart disease; a form of hypochondriasis. See: neurocirculatory asthenia. Synonym: cardioneurosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopaludism | Irregularity in the heart's action due to malaria. Origin: cardio-+ paludism, malaria, fr. L. Palus, marsh (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopath | A sufferer from heart disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopathia nigra | <syndrome> Sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale; associated with severe cyanosis, it is a condition resembling polycythemia vera but resulting from primary pulmonary arteriosclerosis or primary pulmonary hypertension and characterised by plexiform lesions of arterioles. Synonym: Ayerza's disease, cardiopathia nigra, plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopathy | <cardiology> Any disorder or disease of the heart. In addition to heart disease of inflammatory origin, there are arteriosclerotic cardiopathy, due to arteriosclerosis, fatty cardiopathy, due to growth of fatty tissue, hypertensive cardiopathy, due to high blood pressure, nephropathic cardiopathy, due to kidney disease, thyrotoxic cardiopathy, due to thyroid intoxication, toxic cardiopathy, due to the effect of some toxin and valvular cardiopathy, due to faulty valve action. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (18 Nov 1997) |
| cardiopericardiopexy | An operation to increase the blood supply to the myocardium; sterile magnesium silicate (a form of talc) is spread within the pericardial sac or the sac is mechanically abraded to cause an adhesive pericarditis and an increase in blood supply to develop through the stimulation of interarterial coronary anastomoses and pericardial collaterals. Origin: cardio-+ pericardium, + G. Pexis, fixation (05 Mar 2000) |