| cardiophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of heart disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| cardioplegia | Paralysis of the heart. An elective stopping of the heart using chemicals, selective hypothermia or electrical stimulation. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cardioplegic | Relating to cardioplegia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioplegic arrest | Stoppage of electrical and mechanical cardiac activity, used by surgeons when operating upon the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioplegic solutions | Solutions which, upon administration, will temporarily arrest cardiac activity. They are used in the performance of heart surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cardioptosia | A condition in which the heart is unduly movable and displaced downward, as distinguished from bathycardia. See: cor mobile, cor pendulum. Synonym: drop heart. Origin: cardio-+ G. Ptosis, a falling (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopulmonary | <anatomy> Pertaining to the heart and lungs. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cardiopulmonary arrest | <cardiology> An arrest resulting in absence of cardiac and pulmonary activity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiopulmonary bypass | <procedure> This refers to the placement of the patient onto extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to bypass the heart and lungs as, for example, in open heart surgery. This device takes blood from the body, diverts it through a heart-lung machine (a pump-oxygenator) which oxygenates the blood prior to returning it to the systemic circulation under pressure. The machine does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (supply red blood cells with oxygen). This allows the surgeon adequate time to perform primary heart surgery on a temporarily nonfunctioning heart. (20 Jun 1998) |
| cardiopulmonary murmur | <cardiology, clinical sign> An innocent extracardiac murmur, synchronous with the heart's beat but disappearing when the breath is held, believed due to movement of air in a segment of lung compressed by the contracting heart. Synonym: cardiorespiratory murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |