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Definition of Heart disease
1. Noun. A disease of the heart.
Generic synonyms: Cardiovascular Disease
Specialized synonyms: Coronary Heart Disease, Angina, Angina Pectoris, Arrhythmia, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Cardiomyopathy, Myocardiopathy, Coronary Failure, Heart Failure, Valvular Heart Disease, Rheumatic Heart Disease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart Disease
Literary usage of Heart disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The potential reduction in 10-year coronary heart disease risk (according ...
Hypertension, heart disease, and stroke symptoms and signs were more frequent ..."
2. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"heart disease and Stroke Introduction Over the past 15 years, the death rate for
cardiovascular disease (diseases of the heart and blood vessels) has ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Marked shortness of breath is invariable in any form of heart disease and occurs
early, whereas in primary renal disease it is more frequent and occurs ..."
4. The Lancet (1898)
"We might, after recognising the presence of heart disease, eo far as treatment
Is concerned, keep our stethoscope in our pockets, for we have chiefly to ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"part regulated by the frequency of heart disease among the sane population in
... That heart disease is more frequent among the insane in counties where the ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"part regulated by the frequency of heart disease among the sane population ...
That the numerical difference between heart disease in the sane and insane is ..."
7. For a Healthy Nation: Returns on Investment in Public Health by Marthe Gold, Steven Teutsch (1995)
"From 1972 to 1992, the death rates from heart disease decreased by 51%, and for
stroke, by 60% (NCHS, 1993; NHLBI, 1993). The impact of these declines is ..."
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