Definition of Myocarditis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart).

Exact synonyms: Myocardial Inflammation
Generic synonyms: Carditis

Definition of Myocarditis

1. n. Inflammation of the myocardium.

Definition of Myocarditis

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Myocarditis

1. [n -TISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myocarditis

myocardia
myocardial
myocardial-infarct
myocardial infarct
myocardial infarction
myocardial infarctions
myocardial infarcts
myocardial inflammation
myocardial ischaemia
myocardin
myocardioblast
myocardioblasts
myocardiocyte
myocardiocytes
myocardiopathy
myocarditis (current term)
myocarditises
myocardium
myochrome
myocloni
myoclonia
myoclonic
myoclonus
myoclonus epilepsy
myoclonuses
myocomma
myocommas
myocommata
myocyte
myocytes

Literary usage of Myocarditis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"myocarditis. The following forms of myocarditis are observed in small animals: (a) Acute ... The acute parenchymatous and the purulent myocarditis. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"Symptoms of Fibrous myocarditis.—The diagnosis of myocarditis is still beset with ... One must in the first instance differentiate four forms of myocarditis ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Acute Interstitial myocarditis (Parenchymatous myocarditis) Acute interstitial myocarditis and parenchymatous myocarditis may be: (a) Simple acute ..."

4. Physical diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"Weakened Heart ("Chronic myocarditis"). Fatty or fibroid changes in the heart wall occurring in chronic disease may result from coronary sclerosis and ..."

5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"Chronic myocarditis is a slow sclerosis of areas of the myocardium, developing secondarily to changes in the coronary arteries. The essential lesion of the ..."

6. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Pediatrics, 1941, XVIII, 799. 40. COVEY, GW: Acute isolated myocarditis (Fiedler's myocarditis): 41. FRENCH, AJ and WELLER, CV: Interstitial myocarditis ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"Early myocarditis. Associated pathological findings: Cancer of ovary and ... Clinical diagnosis: myocarditis; hypertrophy; mitral and aortic valvulitis. ..."

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