Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
cardiac kär′di-ak, adj. belonging to the heart:
cordial, reviving—also Cardiac′al.—ns.Car′diac, a disease of the heart: a cordial;
Car′dialgy, Cardial′gia, an uneasy sensation or burning
pain at the upper orifice of the stomach, apparently at the
heart—hence called heartburn; Car′diograph, an apparatus for recording by a
tracing—Car′diogram—the
movements of the heart; Car′dioid, a
geometrical curve, so called from its heart-like form; Cardīt′is, inflammation of the heart.
[L.—Gr. kardiakos—kardia, the heart.]
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