endocarditis

English

Etymology

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English endocard(ium)

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -itisder.

English -itis

English endocarditis

From endocard(ium) + -itis.

Noun

endocarditis (countable and uncountable, plural endocarditides or endocarditises)

1. (cardiology, pathology) An inflammation of the endocardium and sometimes also the heart valves.

   Hypernyms: carditis, cardiopathy

   Coordinate terms: myocarditis, pericarditis, pancarditis, perimyoendocarditis

Derived terms

• endocarditic
• Libman-Sacks endocarditis

Translations

inflammation of the endocardium

• Armenian: էնդոկարդիտ (hy) (ēndokardit), ներքնասրտի բորբոքում (nerkʻnasrti borbokʻum)
• Catalan: endocarditis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心內膜炎 / 心内膜炎 (zh) (xīnnèimóyán)

• Czech: endokarditida f
• Dutch: endocarditis (nl) f
• French: endocardite (fr) f
• German: Endokarditis (de) f
• Hungarian: szívbelhártya-gyulladás (hu)
• Italian: endocardite (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 심내막염(心內膜炎) (simnaemagyeom)
• Persian: آندوکاردیت (ândokârdit)
• Portuguese: endocardite (pt) f
• Spanish: endocarditis (es) f
• Turkish: endokardit

Catalan

Etymology

From endocardi +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ən.du.kərˈdi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ən.do.kərˈdi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en.do.kaɾˈði.tis]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -itis

Noun

endocarditis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) endocarditis

Further reading

• “endocarditis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Spanish

Etymology

From endocardio +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /endokaɾˈditis/ [ẽn̪.d̪o.kaɾˈð̞i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: en‧do‧car‧di‧tis

Noun

endocarditis f (plural endocarditis)

1. (pathology) endocarditis

Further reading

• “endocarditis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025