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Definition of Cardiopathy

1. Noun. A disease of the heart.

Definition of Cardiopathy

1. Noun. (medicine) Any disease or disorder of the heart ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cardiopathy

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Medical Definition of Cardiopathy

1. Any disorder or disease of the heart. In addition to heart disease of inflammatory origin, there are arteriosclerotic cardiopathy, due to arteriosclerosis, fatty cardiopathy, due to growth of fatty tissue, hypertensive cardiopathy, due to high blood pressure, nephropathic cardiopathy, due to kidney disease, thyrotoxic cardiopathy, due to thyroid intoxication, toxic cardiopathy, due to the effect of some toxin and valvular cardiopathy, due to faulty valve action. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Cardiopathy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In most of these cases the cardiopathy continues during life without causing secondary disturbances, often but faint physical signs. ..."

2. Manual of the International List of Causes of Death: Based on the Second by United States Bureau of the Census, Cressy Livingston Wilbur (1911)
"... Corrigan's disease Degeneration of heart valvular disease of heart Apoplexy of heart Arterial cardiopathy Asystole Degenerative myocarditis Dilatation ..."

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