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Definition of Precordial
1. Adjective. In front of the heart; involving the precordium.
Definition of Precordial
1. a. Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.
Definition of Precordial
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the precordium. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Precordial
Literary usage of Precordial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis: Comprising the Throat, Thorax, and Abdomen by Paul Guttmann (1880)
"... PALPATION OF THE precordial REGION. THE investigation (by means of palpation)
of the phenomena which depend for their existence on the ..."
2. Textbook of insanity by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1905)
"precordial distress is one of the most important and frequent subsidiary
manifestations of melancholic states. Whenever it occurs, it is a very grave ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... palpitation; precordial distress, increased rate of pulse and respiration;
rise of blood pressure and temperature, and sometimes glycemia (Seifert, ..."
4. Clinical Cardiology by Selian Neuhof (1917)
"This confusion in symptomatology and pathology, and the fact that precordial
pains of similar distribution and character may be caused both by intra- and ..."
5. Differential diagnosis: A Manual of the Comparative Semeiology of the More by Francis de Havilland Hall, Frank Woodbury (1879)
"The precordial Regions. Normal Sounds and Impulse of the Heart. Endocardial Murmurs.
General Rules for the Diagnosis of Heart Disease. ..."
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