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antiheart

antiheart adjective: pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.

Adjective

antiheart (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.
    • Then it can be presumed that antiheart serum, subsequently administered, causes yolk sac dysfunction of a higher degree, resulting in a distrubance in the metabolite transport essential to cardiogenesis.1984, James J. Nora, Atsuyoshi Takao, Congenital Heart Disease: Causes and Processes, page 334
    • Common antigenic determinants have been shown between streptococcal proteins and heart autoantigens, and T cell response to these determinants leads to the appearance of antiheart autoimmunity.2011, Nancy M. Khardori, Biologic Response Modifiers in Infectious Diseases, →ISBN

Origin of antiheart

From anti- + heart.

Questions about antiheart

What does antiheart mean?
Antiheart means pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.
What part of speech is antiheart?
Antiheart is an adjective.

Words near antiheart in the dictionary

  1. antihate
  2. antihatred
  3. antihazard
  4. antihazing
  5. antiheadache
  6. antiheart
  7. antihectic
  8. antihectics
  9. antihedonism
  10. antihedonist
  11. antihedonistic

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