cardiac

See also: cardíac

English

Etymology

From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakós, “relating to the heart”), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

  1. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart.
    the cardiac arteries
  2. (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
  3. (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

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Noun

cardiac (plural cardiacs)

  1. A person with heart disease.
  2. (dated) Heart disease.
  3. (medicine) A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cardiac”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Interlingua

Adjective

cardiac (not comparable)

  1. cardiac

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus.

Adjective

cardiac m or n (feminine singular cardiacă, masculine plural cardiaci, feminine and neuter plural cardiace)

  1. cardiac

Declension
Declension of cardiac
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite cardiac cardiacă cardiaci cardiace
definite cardiacul cardiaca cardiacii cardiacele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite cardiac cardiace cardiaci cardiace
definite cardiacului cardiacei cardiacilor cardiacelor
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