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Definition of Carditis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the heart.

Definition of Carditis

1. n. Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.

Definition of Carditis

1. Noun. (medicine) inflammation of the muscles of the heart. ¹

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Definition of Carditis

1. inflammation of the heart [n -TISES] : CARDITIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Carditis

1. Inflammation of the heart, including pericarditis, myocarditis and endocarditis, according to whether the enveloping outer membrane, the muscle or the inner lining is affected. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Carditis

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

1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs: Including the Principles by Walter Hayle Walshe (1851)
"I.-The anatomical characters of acute carditis, as an attendant ... But clinically, the effects of such carditis are not understood; whatever they are, ..."

2. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1876)
"carditis.—The substance of the heart itself undergoes at times inflammation. We can recognize such a condition after death, by the changed color, ..."

3. Modern medical therapeutics: A Compendium of Recent Formulæ and Specific by George Henry Napheys (1885)
"... with alkalies, etc., is, according to Dr. FULLER, necessary in rheumatic carditis, to counteract and get rid of the materies morbi, without the removal ..."

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