HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" is a kind of...):

cardiomyopathy; myocardiopathy (a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium))

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