| cardionector | Archaic term sometimes used for conducting system of heart. Origin: cardio-+ L. Necto, to join (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| cardiophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of heart disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiophone | A stethoscope specially modified to aid in listening to the sounds of the heart. Origin: cardio-+ G. Phone, sound (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiophony | A rarely used term for phonocardiography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiophrenia | Precordial pain and dyspnea of psychogenic origin, often a symptom of anxiety neurosis. See: cardiac neurosis. Synonym: cardiophrenia. Origin: phreno-+ G. Kardia, heart (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiophrenic angle | The angle between the heart and the diaphragm at either lateral end of the cardiac projection on imaging (usually the chest X-ray film). The right cardiophrenic angle is normally indistinguishable from the cardiohepatic angle radiographically. Synonym: cardiodiaphragmatic angle, phrenopericardial angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioplasty | An operation on the cardia of the stomach. Synonym: oesophagogastroplasty. Origin: cardio-+ G. Plastos, formed (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiac output curve |
a graphic representation of cardiac output as a function of atrial pressure; it is a measure of the pumping ability of the heart under specific conditions. See also Starling c. and venous return c.
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| cardiorespiratory sign |
a change in the normal pulse-respiration ratio from 4:1 to 2:1; seen in infantile scurvy.
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| cardiovascular system |
The transport system of the body responsible for carrying oxygen and nutrients to the body and carrying away carbon dioxide and other wastes to the kidneys for excretion; composed of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
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| cardiotoxic |
having a harmful effect on the action of the heart
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| cardiomyopathy |
Any disease that affects the structure and function of the heart.
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