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CARDIAC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the heart

Example:

cardiac arrest

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

heart (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)

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 Context examples: 

However, Lyme disease can be difficult to diagnose because it causes a wide range of symptoms, from fever and rash to neurologic and cardiac symptoms and joint pain.

(Scientists work toward a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for Lyme disease, National Institutes of Health)

AP-1 activity is also enhanced in Ang II-induced cardiac hypertrophy.

(Angiotensin II Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An intended medical or surgical procedure necessitates the relocation of a cardiac lead.

(Medical or Surgical Procedure Requiring Relocation of Lead, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The chloride salt form of methacholine, a direct-acting cholinergic muscarinic agonist with bronchoconstrictive, miotic, vasodilator, and cardiac vagomimetic activity.

(Methacholine Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The cardiac valve orifice is abnormally narrow, to a moderate degree.

(Moderate Cardiac Valve Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A cardiac rhythm characterized by progressive PR prolongation and shortening of RR interval until P wave is blocked.

(Mobitz I, NCI Thesaurus)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with development of cardiac hypertrophy.

(MIR208A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Moderately less than normal amount of blood that is forced from the heart ventricle to produce cardiac output.

(Moderately Abnormal Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

The striated muscle tissue is further subdivided into skeletal, visceral striated, and cardiac muscle.

(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in transcriptional regulation that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle development and differentiation of neurons.

(Myocyte-Specific Enhancer Factor 2D, NCI Thesaurus)