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Definition of Pericardial
1. Adjective. Located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium. "Pericardial space"
Definition of Pericardial
1. Adjective. (cardiology) Of, or relating to the pericardium. ¹
2. Adjective. Surrounding or next to the heart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pericardial
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pericardial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericardial
Literary usage of Pericardial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"Phagocytic organs have been found in many Orthoptera and in earwigs ; they are
situated in the pericardial region ; and can be made conspicuous by ..."
2. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"Obliteration of the pericardial Cavity (Adhesive Pericarditis ... Even extensive
adhesions of the pericardial surfaces may develop and remain entirely ..."
3. Physical diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"If a friction sound heard in the pericardial region ceases altogether when ...
From murmurs due to valvular disease of the heart, pericardial friction can ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In Nautilus the viscero-pericardial sac opens to the exterior directly by a pair of
... This direct opening of the pericardial sac to the exterior is an ..."
5. A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis: Comprising the Throat, Thorax, and Abdomen by Paul Guttmann (1880)
"pericardial MURMURS. So long as the opposed visceral and parietal surfaces of
the pericardium retain their normal perfect smoothness, the gliding of the one ..."
6. Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest by Richard Clarke Cabot (1901)
"Following the fibrinous exudation, which roughens the pericardial surface and
produces the friction sounds just described, serum may accumulate in the ..."
7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Inspiration also augments true pericardial friction, which is, however, ...
The dulness of pericardial exudation.—The typical pyriform or triangular dulness ..."
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