| heartbreak | Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| heartbreaking | Causing overpowering sorrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartbroken | Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartburn | <gastroenterology, symptom> Indigestion and a burning pain that is commonly seen in patients with reflux oesophagitis. (07 Apr 1998) |
| heartburned | Having heartburn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartburning | Causing discontent. 1. <medicine> Same as Heartburn. 2. Discontent; secret enmity. "The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings." (Palfrey) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartdear | Sincerely beloved. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartdeep | Rooted in the heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hearted | 1. Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character). 2. Shaped like a heart; cordate. 3. Seated or laid up in the heart. "I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted." (Shak) This word is chiefly used in composition; as, hard-hearted, faint-hearted, kind-hearted, lion-hearted, stout-hearted, etc. Hence the nouns hard-heartedness, faint-heartedness, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartedness | Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. See also the Note under Hearted. The analysis of the compounds gives hard-hearted + -ness, rather than hard + heartedness, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hearten | 1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. "Hearten those that fight in your defense." (Shak) 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. Origin: From Heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartener | One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartfelt | Hearty; sincere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartgrief | Heartache; sorrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hearth | 1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. "There was a fire on the hearth burning before him." (Jer. Xxxvi. 22) "Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry." (Shak) 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. <chemistry> The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. <chemistry> Hearth ends, fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. Heorthpening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; called also chimney money, etc. "He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . Burden of the hearth money." (Macaulay) Origin: OE. Harthe, herth, herthe, AS. Heor; akin to D. Haard, heerd, Sw. Hard, G. Herd; cf. Goth. Haori a coal, Icel. Hyrr embers, and L. Cremare to burn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| crisscross heart | Cardiac malformation characterised by an atrioventricular spatial relation that places or appears to place each ventricle in a contralateral position relative to its associated atrium. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| crux of heart | The zone of junction of the septa and walls of the four chambers of the heart. Synonym: cross. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hairy heart | Acute pericarditis with fibrinous exudate. See: bread-and-butter pericardium. Synonym: hairy heart, pericarditis villosa, shaggy pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| premature contraction of the heart | When a single heartbeat occurs earlier than normal. This phenomenon can be within normal limits or represent a medically significant arrhythmia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sabot heart | <radiology> The radiographic configuration of the heart in the tetralogy of Fallot; the elevated apex gives a silhouette like that of a wooden shoe Synonym: sabot heart, wooden-shoe heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudo-heart | <zoology> Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system. Origin: Pseudo- + heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| second heart sound | The second sound heard on auscultation of the heart; signifies the beginning of diastole and is due to closure of the semilunar valves. Synonym: second sound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| holiday heart syndrome | <syndrome> Arrhythmias of the heart, sometimes apparent after a vacation or weekend away from work, following excessive alcohol consumption; usually transient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes heart | A variant of double inlet left ventricle where the ventricular-arterial connection is concordant and the right ventricle is rudimentary. Horizontal heart, description of the heart's electrical position; recognised in the electrocardiogram when the QRS in lead aVL resembles that in V6 and QRS in aVF resembles that in V1; also, loosely, when the electrical axis lies between -30 |
| pulmonary heart | The right atrium and ventricle, receiving the venous blood and propelling it to the lungs. See: cor pulmonale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pulmonary surface of heart | The lateral surface of the heart, directed toward the lungs; on the left it is principally the left ventricular wall; on the right it is the right atrial wall and the upper part of the right ventricular wall. Synonym: facies pulmonalis cordis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| semihorizontal heart | Loosely refers to the heart's electrical axis when this is directed at approximately 0 |
| semivertical heart | Loosely descriptive of the heart's electrical axis when this is directed at approximately +60 |
| shaggy heart | <radiology> Basilar interstitial lung disease, characteristic of: asbestosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| hyperkinetic heart syndrome | <syndrome> Loosely, a syndrome in which the heart appears to be "overworking", i.e., beating excessively fast and/or causing subjective awareness of continual cardiac activity. (05 Mar 2000) |