cardiac

See also: cardíac

English

Etymology

From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”); by surface analysis, cardi- +‎ -ac.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdɪæk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹdiˌæk/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart.

   the cardiac arteries

2. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia of the stomach; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
3. (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

Antonyms

• noncardiac

Derived terms

• amniocardiac
• apicocardiac
• ballistocardiac
• branchiocardiac
• cardiac arrest
• cardiac board
• cardiac muscle
• cardiac output
• cardiac passion
• cardiac plexus
• cardiac syndrome X
• cardiac tamponade
• cerebrocardiac
• cervicicardiac
• cervicocardiac
• congestive cardiac failure
• 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

• acardiac
• cardiology
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• cordial
• courage
• endocardium
• myocardium
• pericardium

Translations

pertaining to the heart

• Arabic: قَلْبِيّ (qalbiyy)
• Armenian: սրտային (hy) (srtayin)
• Belarusian: сэ́рцавы (sércavy)
• Bengali: কার্ডিয়াক (bn) (karḍiẏak)
• Bulgarian: сърде́чен (bg) (sǎrdéčen)
• Catalan: cardíac (ca)
• Czech: srdeční (cs)
• Esperanto: kora (eo)
• French: cardiaque (fr)
• German: Herz- (de)
• Greek: καρδιακός (el) (kardiakós)
• Icelandic: hjarta- (is)
• Ido: kordiala (io)
• Italian: cardiaco (it)
• Macedonian: срцев (srcev)
• Persian: قلبی (fa) (qalbi)
• Polish: sercowy (pl)
• Portuguese: cardíaco (pt)
• Romanian: cardiac (ro)
• Russian: серде́чный (ru) (serdéčnyj), кардиа́льный (ru) (kardiálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срчани

  Roman: srčani (sh)

• Slovak: srdcový
• Slovene: srčni
• Spanish: cardiaco (es)
• Tajik: дил (tg) (dil)
• Ukrainian: серце́вий (sercévyj)

pertaining to the cardia

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

Noun

cardiac (plural cardiacs)

1. A person with heart disease.
2. (dated) Heart disease.
3. (medicine) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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

Interlingua

Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

1. cardiac

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus.

Adjective

cardiac m or n (feminine singular cardiacă, masculine plural cardiaci, feminine and neuter plural cardiace)

1. cardiac

Declension

		singular				plural
		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