cardiac
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːdɪæk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/
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Adjective edit
cardiac (not comparable)
- (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart.
- the cardiac arteries
- (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
- (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- amniocardiac
- apicocardiac
- ballistocardiac
- branchiocardiac
- cardiac arrest
- cardiac board
- cardiac muscle
- cardiac output
- cardiac passion
- cardiac plexus
- cardiac tamponade
- cerebrocardiac
- cervicicardiac
- cervicocardiac
- 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 edit
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Noun edit
cardiac (plural cardiacs)
- A person with heart disease.
- (dated) Heart disease.
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
cardiac (not comparable)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus.
Adjective edit
cardiac m or n (feminine singular cardiacă, masculine plural cardiaci, feminine and neuter plural cardiace)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |