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Definition of Cardiac
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the heart. "Cardiac arrest"
Definition of Cardiac
1. a. Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.
2. n. A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.
Definition of Cardiac
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the heart. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the cardia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cardiac
1. a person with a heart disorder [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cardiac
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac
Literary usage of Cardiac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The cardiac Plexus. The cardiac plexus is situated at the base of the heart, and
is divided ... The great or deep cardiac plexus (plexus magnus profundus. ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, John Cleland, Allen Thomson (1867)
"The principal of these plexuses are the cardiac, the solar, ... cardiac PLEXUS.
This plexus receives the cardiac branches of the cervical ganglia and those ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"The middle cardiac nerve is described with the other cardiac nerves. ... Tlie most
important of these branches constitutes the inferior cardiac nerve, ..."
4. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... cardiac hyper- uls, m. cardiac impulse jkt, n. infarction of the ...
cardiac valves Herz-klopfen, n. palpitation of the heart Herz-knochen, m. cardiac ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1907)
"The Course of the cardiac Fibers.—The vagus nerve gives off several branches ...
The superior cardiac branches arise from the vagus in the neck somewhere ..."
6. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"dullness has been reached and marked, continuing with superficial percussion,
until the upper limit of the area of absolute cardiac dullness is attained, ..."
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