cardiac

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French cardiaque, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cardiacus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”).

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Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the heart.

   the cardiac arteries

2. (anatomy) Pertaining to the cardia.
3. (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

Antonyms

• noncardiac

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cardiac arrest
• cardiac muscle

• cardiac plexus
• cardiac tamponade

Related terms

Related terms

• acardiac
• cardiology
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• courage

• endocardium
• myocardium
• pericardium

Translations

pertaining to the heart

• Arabic: قَلْبِيّ (qalbiyy)
• Armenian: սրտային (hy) (srtayin)
• Belarusian: сэ́рцавы (sércavy)
• Bengali: কার্ডিয়াক (karḍiẏak)
• Catalan: cardíac
• Czech: srdeční (cs) m
• Esperanto: kora (eo)
• French: cardiaque (fr)
• Icelandic: hjarta- (is)
• Ido: kordiala (io)
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• Italian: cardiaco (it)
• Persian: قلبی (fa) (qalbi)
• Polish: sercowy (pl)
• Portuguese: cardíaco (pt)
• Romanian: cardiac (ro) m
• Russian: серде́чный (ru) (serdéčnyj), кардиа́льный (ru) (kardiálʹnyj)
• Slovak: srdcový
• Spanish: cardiaco (es), cardíaco (es)
• Ukrainian: серце́вий (sercévyj)

pertaining to the cardia

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

Noun

cardiac (plural cardiacs)

1. A person with heart disease.
2. (dated) Heart disease.
3. (medicine) A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cardiac”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Accardi, Arcadic

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Interlingua

Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. cardiac