pericardium

English

Noun

pericardium (plural pericardia)

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

Related terms

• pericardiac
• pericardial
• pericarditis

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

serous membrane that surrounds the heart

• Arabic: شَغَاف (šaḡāf), شَغَف (šaḡaf)
• Catalan: pericardi (ca) m
• Czech: osrdečník (cs) m, osrdečnice f, perikard m
• Finnish: sydänpussi (fi), pericardium (fi)
• French: péricarde (fr) m
• Greek: περικάρδιο (el) n (perikárdio)
• Icelandic: gollurshús n
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• Italian: pericardio (it) m
• Japanese: 心嚢 (shinnō)
• Persian: پیراشامه (pīrāšāme), آب‌شامه (ābšāme)
• Romanian: pericard (ro) n
• Russian: перикард (ru) (perikard)
• Spanish: pericardio (es) m
• Swedish: perikardium (sv) n, hjärtsäck (sv) c
• Tagalog: bambampuso

See also

• endocardium
• myocardium