myocarditis

English

Etymology

From myo- +‎ carditis.

Noun

myocarditis (countable and uncountable, plural myocardites or myocarditides or myocarditises)

1. (pathology, cardiology) Inflammation of the myocardium.

Synonyms

• inflammatory cardiomyopathy

Hypernyms

• cardiomyopathy (myocardiopathy)

Coordinate terms

• pericarditis

Derived terms

• giant cell myocarditis (= GCM)
• viral myocarditis (= VM)

Translations

inflammation of the myocardium

• Catalan: miocarditis f, miocarditis f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心肌炎 (zh) (xīnjīyán)

• Czech: myokarditida (cs) f
• Finnish: sydänlihastulehdus, myokardiitti (fi)
• French: myocardite (fr) f
• Galician: miocardite (gl) f
• German: Herzmuskelentzündung (de) f, Myokarditis (de) f, Myokardentzündung f, Virusmyokarditis (de) f (viral), Riesenzellmyokarditis f (giant cell)
• Greek: μυοκαρδίτιδα (el) f (myokardítida)
• Kazakh: миокардит (miokardit)
• Persian: میوکاردیت (miyokârdit)
• Portuguese: miocardite f
• Romanian: miocardită (ro) f
• Spanish: miocarditis (es) f
• Turkish: myokardit