pericarditis
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English
Etymology
From pericard(ium) + -itis.
Noun
pericarditis (countable and uncountable, plural pericarditides or pericardites)
- (cardiology, pathology) Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart.
- Hypernyms: carditis, cardiopathy
- Coordinate terms: endocarditis, myocarditis, pancarditis, perimyoendocarditis
Translations
inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart
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Spanish
Etymology
From pericardio + -itis.
Pronunciation
Noun
pericarditis f (plural pericarditis)
Further reading
- “pericarditis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10