Definition of Pericardiac

1. Adjective. Located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium. "Pericardial space"

Exact synonyms: Pericardial
Partainyms: Pericardium, Pericardium
Derivative terms: Pericardium

Definition of Pericardiac

1. a. Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Medical Definition of Pericardiac

1. Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. Pericardial fluid, a serous fluid of a pale yellow colour contained in the pericardium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericardiac

peribronchiolar
peribronchiolitis
peribronchitis
peribuccal
peribulbar
peribursal
pericaecal
pericallosal artery
pericambium
pericanalicular
pericanicular dense bodies
pericapillary
pericapillary cell
pericardectomy
pericardia
pericardiac (current term)
pericardiacophrenic artery
pericardiacophrenic veins
pericardial
pericardial branch of phrenic nerve
pericardial branch of thoracic aorta
pericardial cavity
pericardial cyst
pericardial decompression
pericardial effusion
pericardial fremitus
pericardial friction sound
pericardial knock
pericardial murmur
pericardial reflex

Literary usage of Pericardiac

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

1. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"Phobic Manifestations and pericardiac Fixations.—Phobic symptoms centred on the heart are very frequently met with. This is very simply explained by the ..."

2. The Art and science of embalming by Carl Lewis Barnes (1898)
"The branches of this vessel given off in the cavity of the thorax are: the bronchial, posterior mediastinal, the intercostal, and the pericardiac, ..."

3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The pericardiac cells are not renal or renal accumulators, as often believed. ... Nevertheless, if the pericardiac cells be so compared, their vertebrate ..."

4. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1824)
"the existence of organic disease is suspected, whether such disease be pericardiac dropsy or aneurism of the heart. In the first place, it sometimes, ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1899)
"At present, although I feel that it is premature to attempt any comparison between the veno-pericardiac muscles of Limulus and these tubular muscles of ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The pericardiac branches supply the upper part of the anterior surface of the ... The mediastinal, pericardiac, and sternal branches, together with some ..."

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