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CARDITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of the heart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("carditis" is a kind of...):
inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carditis"):
endocarditis (inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves)
myocardial inflammation; myocarditis (inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart))
pancarditis (inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium))
pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium)
