| cardioactive | Influencing the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cardioangiography | Radiography of the heart and great vessels after injection of a contrast medium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cardioaortic | Relating to the heart and the aorta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioarterial | Relating to the heart and the arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioarterial interval | The time between the apex beat of the heart and the radial pulse beat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cardiobacterium | A genus of nonmotile, pleomorphic, gram negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria found in the nasal flora and associated with endocarditis in humans. The type species is cardiobacterium hominis. Cardiobacterium hominis, a species that causes endocarditis in humans. The type species of Cardiobacterium. See: HACEK group. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiocele | A herniation or protrusion of the heart through an opening in the diaphragm, or through a wound. Origin: cardio-+ G. Kele, hernia (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiochalasia | Achalasia of the cardia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiodiaphragmatic 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) |
| cardiodiosis | Rarely used term for manoeuvre to dilate the gastric cardia. Origin: cardio-+ G. Diosis, a spreading open (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiodynamics | The mechanics of the heart's action, including its movement and the forces generated thereby. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiodynia | Pain in the heart. Synonym: cardialgia. Origin: cardio-+ G. Odyne, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioesophageal | Denoting the area at the junction of the oesophagus and cardiac part of the stomach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioesophageal junction | The abrupt transition from oesophageal mucosa to that of the cardiac portion of stomach, demarcated internally in the living by the z-line, and approximated externally by the cardiac notch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardioesophageal relaxation | Relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter which can allow reflux of acidic gastric contents into the lower oesophagus, producing oesophagitis. (05 Mar 2000) |