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praecordium

praecordium is the obsolete form of precordium.

Meaning of precordium

Noun

precordium (plural precordia)

  1. The region of the body over the heart and thorax.

Forms of praecordium

pluralpraecordia

Questions about praecordium

What is praecordium the obsolete form of?
Praecordium is the obsolete form of precordium.

Words near praecordium in the dictionary

  1. praeconising
  2. praecoracoid
  3. praecoracoids
  4. praecordia
  5. praecordial
  6. praecordium
  7. praecornu
  8. praecornua
  9. praecox
  10. praecoxa
  11. praecoxae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praecordium (page history and authors); precordium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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