cardiac

See also: cardíac

English

Etymology

From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”); by surface analysis, cardi- +‎ -ac.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdɪæk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart.

   the cardiac arteries

2. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia of the stomach; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
3. (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

Antonyms

• noncardiac

Derived terms

• amniocardiac
• apicocardiac
• ballistocardiac
• branchiocardiac
• cardiac arrest
• cardiac board
• cardiac muscle
• cardiac output
• cardiac passion
• cardiac plexus
• cardiac syndrome X
• cardiac tamponade
• cerebrocardiac
• cervicicardiac
• cervicocardiac
• congestive cardiac failure
• craniocardiac
• craniocerebellocardiac
• electrocardiac
• endocardiac
• esophagocardiac
• exocardiac
• extracardiac
• gastrocardiac
• great cardiac vein
• hepatocardiac
• infracardiac
• intracardiac
• magnetocardiac
• mesocardiac
• myocardiac
• nephrocardiac
• neurocardiac
• oculocardiac
• pancardiac
• paracardiac
• postcardiac
• precardiac
• pseudocardiac
• pterocardiac
• renocardiac
• retrocardiac
• supracardiac
• transcardiac
• trigeminocardiac
• urocardiac
• zygocardiac

Related terms

• acardiac
• cardiology
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• cordial
• courage
• endocardium
• myocardium
• pericardium

Translations

pertaining to the heart

• Arabic: قَلْبِيّ (qalbiyy)
• Armenian: սրտային (hy) (srtayin)
• Belarusian: сэ́рцавы (sércavy)
• Bengali: কার্ডিয়াক (bn) (karḍiẏak)
• Bulgarian: сърде́чен (bg) (sǎrdéčen)
• Catalan: cardíac (ca)
• Czech: srdeční (cs)
• Esperanto: kora (eo)
• French: cardiaque (fr)
• German: Herz- (de)
• Greek: καρδιακός (el) (kardiakós)
• Icelandic: hjarta- (is)
• Ido: kordiala (io)
• Italian: cardiaco (it)
• Macedonian: срцев (srcev)
• Persian: قلبی (fa) (qalbi)
• Polish: sercowy (pl)
• Portuguese: cardíaco (pt)
• Romanian: cardiac (ro)
• Russian: серде́чный (ru) (serdéčnyj), кардиа́льный (ru) (kardiálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срчани

  Roman: srčani (sh)

• Slovak: srdcový
• Slovene: srčni
• Spanish: cardiaco (es)
• Tajik: дил (tg) (dil)
• Ukrainian: серце́вий (sercévyj)

pertaining to the cardia

• Icelandic: munnamaga-
• Italian: cardiale (it)
• Swahili: -a moyo

Noun

cardiac (plural cardiacs)

1. A person with heart disease.
2. (dated) Heart disease.

Anagrams

• Accardi, Arcadic

Interlingua

Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. cardiac

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus.

Adjective

cardiac m or n (feminine singular cardiacă, masculine plural cardiaci, feminine and neuter plural cardiace)

1. cardiac

Declension

Declension of cardiac

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	cardiac		cardiacă		cardiaci	cardiace
	definite	cardiacul		cardiaca		cardiacii	cardiacele
genitive- dative	indefinite	cardiac		cardiace		cardiaci	cardiace
	definite	cardiacului		cardiacei		cardiacilor	cardiacelor