pericardium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek περικάρδιον (perikárdion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɹɪˈkɑː(ɹ)di.əm/

Noun

pericardium (plural pericardia or pericardiums)

1. (anatomy, cardiology) A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract.
   • 1685, Samuel Collins, “Of the Diseases of the Pericardium, and their Cures”, in The Second Volume, containing The Parts of the Middle and Highest Apartiment of Man's Body (And other Animals):

     The Pericardium is sometimes swelled, as overcharged with too great a quantity of Serous Liquor, making a kind of Dropsie […]

Synonyms

• heart sac
• theca cordis

Derived terms

• chylopericardium
• haemopericardium
• hemopericardium
• hydropericardium
• hyperpericardium
• pneumopericardium

 

Related terms

• pericardiac
• pericardial
• pericarditis

Translations

serous membrane that surrounds the heart

• Arabic: تَأْمُور m (taʔmūr)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܬܚܦܝܬܐ ܕܠܒܐ f (taḥpīṯā ḏə-lebbā)

• Catalan: pericardi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心包 (zh) (xīnbāo)

• Czech: osrdečník (cs) m, osrdečnice f, perikard m
• Finnish: sydänpussi (fi), perikardium (fi)
• French: péricarde (fr) m
• German: Herzbeutel (de) m, Perikard n
• Greek: περικάρδιο (el) n (perikárdio)
• Icelandic: gollurshús n
• Italian: pericardio (it) m
• Japanese: 心嚢 (ja) (shinnō)
• Persian: پیراشامه (pirâšâme), آب‌شامه (fa) (âb-šâme), پریکارد (perikârd)
• Polish: osierdzie (pl) n
• Romanian: pericard (ro) n
• Russian: перикард (ru) (perikard)
• Spanish: pericardio (es) m
• Swedish: perikardium (sv) n, hjärtsäck (sv) c
• Tagalog: bambampuso
• Turkish: perikard
• Welsh: pilen y galon f

See also

• endocardium
• myocardium