cardia

See also: Cardia and -cardia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)diə

Noun

cardia (plural cardias or cardiae)

1. (anatomy) The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
   • 2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300:

     In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.

   • 2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus:

     The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer.

   • 2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes:

     After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.

Derived terms

• cardial
• noncardia

 

Translations

section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach

• Catalan: càrdies (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 賁門／贲门 (hûn-mn̂g)

  Mandarin: 賁門／贲门 (zh) (bēnmén)

• Czech: kardie f, česlo (cs) n
• French: orifice de l’estomac
• German: Magenmund m
• Hungarian: gyomorszáj (hu)
• Icelandic: munnahluti maga m
• Italian: cardias (it) m
• Japanese: 噴門 (ja) (ふんもん, funmon)
• Sicilian: vucca 'i l'arma f
• Swedish: övre magmunnen (sv) c, cardia

Anagrams

• acarid, cariad

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cardia f (plural cardias)

1. cardia

Further reading

• “cardia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Cognate with Greek καρδιά (kardiá), Mariupol Greek кардъи́я (karðíja).

Noun

cardia f

1. heart

Declension

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