Definition of Pancarditis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium).

Generic synonyms: Carditis

Definition of Pancarditis

1. Noun. inflammation of all three layers of the heart ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Pancarditis

1. Inflammation of all the structures of the heart. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancarditis

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pancake tortoises
pancake turner
pancake turtle
pancaked
pancakelike
pancakes
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pancarditis (current term)
pancarte
pance
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pancheon

Literary usage of Pancarditis

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

1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"It is often present as a terminal lesion superimposed on chronic valvular defect, less often in chronic wasting diseases. 2. Rheumatic pancarditis of ..."

2. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"A pleuritis, peritonitis or a pancarditis is, therefore, wholly possible. 3. ... That even though a pancarditis is absent, the myocardium is always to some ..."

3. Diseases of the Heart by Theodor von Jürgensen, 1840-1907, Theodor von Jürgensen, Leopold Schrötter, Ludolf Krehl (1908)
"pancarditis"—this will be the diagnosis of the future. But he who makes this diagnosis must know how to distinguish the various parts which compose the ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
""pancarditis" is the term sometimes used, and this is even more accurate than carditis. When symptoms of embarrassed heart action occur in rheumatic ..."

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