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pericarditic

pericarditic adjective: of or pertaining to pericarditis.

Adjective

pericarditic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to pericarditis
    • There were some old pericarditic adhesions over the left side of the left ventricle, and on separating these the heart-wall was torn through, and from the adherent infiltrated clot it was evident that at least a partial præ-mortem tearing of the heart-wall had occurred here, and perhaps complete...1885 January, “Part IV.—Notes and News”, in D. Hack Tuke, Geo. H. Savage, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XXX, London: J. and A. Churchill, […], page 642

Questions about pericarditic

What does pericarditic mean?
Pericarditic means of or pertaining to pericarditis.
What part of speech is pericarditic?
Pericarditic is an adjective.

Words near pericarditic in the dictionary

  1. pericardiopleural
  2. pericardioscopy
  3. pericardiotomies
  4. pericardiotomy
  5. pericardites
  6. pericarditic
  7. pericarditides
  8. pericarditis
  9. pericardium
  10. pericardiums
  11. pericariditis

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