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paracardiac

paracardiac adjective: near the heart.

Adjective

paracardiac (not comparable)

  1. Near the heart
    • ( 10 ) also reported that all paracardiac pleural plaques were observed on the left.2015 August 21, Yookyung Kim et al., “CT Characteristics of Pleural Plaques Related to Occupational or Environmental Asbestos Exposure from South Korean Asbestos Mines”, in Korean Journal of...

Origin of paracardiac

From para- + cardiac.

Questions about paracardiac

What does paracardiac mean?
Paracardiac means near the heart.
What part of speech is paracardiac?
Paracardiac is an adjective.

Words near paracardiac in the dictionary

  1. paracanonical
  2. paracapillary
  3. paracapsular
  4. paracarcinoma
  5. paracarcinomatous
  6. paracardiac
  7. paracardial
  8. paracarmine
  9. paracarpel
  10. paracarpels
  11. Paracas

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