Cardiomyopathy

Definition: Cardiomyopathy

Cardiomyopathy

Noun

1. A disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium).

Specialty Definitions: Cardiomyopathy

Domain	Definitions
Health	A general diagnostic term designating primary myocardial disease, often of obscure or unknown etiology. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Cardiomyopathy

Synonym: myocardiopathy (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: myocardiopathy (medicine).

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Synonyms within Context: Cardiomyopathy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cardiomyopathy

English words defined with "cardiomyopathy": hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cardiomyopathy": Cardiomyopathy, Congestive, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, Chagas Cardiomyopathy ♦ Dilated cardiomyopathy ♦ Restrictive cardiomyopathy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cardiomyopathy

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Dilated Cardiomyopathy (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cardiomyopathy Update: Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmias, No. 3 (reference) Cytokines and the Heart: Molecular Mechanisms of Septic Cardiomyopathy (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference) Dilated Cardiomyopathy (reference) Metabolic and Molecular Aspects of Cardiomyopathy (Cardiomyopathy Update, 4) (reference) New Aspects of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Cardiomyopathy

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A heart in dilated cardiomyopathy.Credit: NIAA.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Cardiomyopathy

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cardiomyopathy affects about 50,000 Americans. (references)
		Nonischemic cardiomyopathy includes several types. (references)
		As noted, there are various types of cardiomyopathy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cardiomyopathy

"Cardiomyopathy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cardiomyopathy" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	37	56,631

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Cardiomyopathy

Expressions using "cardiomyopathy": Chagas Cardiomyopathy ♦ Dilated cardiomyopathy ♦ Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ♦ Restrictive cardiomyopathy. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cardiomyopathy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cardiomyopathy	535	beer cardiomyopathy drinker	6
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	92	idiopathic cardiomyopathy	6
dilated cardiomyopathy	61	canine cardiomyopathy	6
alcoholic cardiomyopathy	37	anastomosis angina angiogenesis annuloplasty aortic arrhythmia artery athersclerosis atrial beating cabg cardiac cardiac cardiomyopathy cardiothoracic cardiovascular carpentier coronary coronary cosgrove defibrillator fibrillation graft heart infarction ischemia mesenchymal midcab mitral morphogenetic myocardial myogenesis opcab pacemaker pump saphenous septal stem stent stented thoracoscopic tmr vad valvuloplasty ventricular	6
peripartum cardiomyopathy	23	cardiomyopathy pregnancy	6
postpartum cardiomyopathy	20	chagas cardiomyopathy	4
ischemic cardiomyopathy	18	cardiomyopathy cat	4
viral cardiomyopathy	14	cardiomyopathy prognosis	4
feline cardiomyopathy	14	nonischemic cardiomyopathy	4
cardiomyopathy tecastemizole	12	cardiomyopathy end stage	4
feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	11	cardiomyopathy pediatric	4
hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy	11	cardiomyopathy dog in	3
restrictive cardiomyopathy	10	cardiomyopathy treatment	3
alcohol cardiomyopathy	10	idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy	3
dialated cardiomyopathy	9	cardiomyopathy malpractice	3
cardiomyopathy partum post	9	cardiomyopathy dilated implantation pacemaker	3
cardiomyopathy symptom	9	cardiomyopathy dog	3
boxer cardiomyopathy	8	cardiomyopathy doberman	3
hypertropic cardiomyopathy	8	cardiomyopathy medication	2
cardiomyopathy cat in	7	cardiomyopathy dilated implantation maker pace	2
		cardiomyopathy end stage symptom	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cardiomyopathy

Language		Translations for "cardiomyopathy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		心肌病. (various references)

Danish		cardiomyopathi, myokardiopati (myocardiopathy), kardiomyopati (myocardial disease, myocardiopathy). (various references)

Dutch		cardiomyopathie (myocardial disease, myocardiopathy). (various references)

Finnish		ei-obstruktiivinen sydänlihassairaus (nonobstructive cardiomyopathy, non-obstructive cardiomyopathy). (various references)

French		cardiomyopathie (f), cardiomyopathie, myocardiopathie. (various references)

German		Kardiomyopathie (myocardiopathy). (various references)

Greek		μη αποφρακτική μυοκαρδιοπάθεια (nonobstructive cardiomyopathy, non-obstructive cardiomyopathy). (various references)

Italian		cardiomiopatia (myocardiopathy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardiomyopathycay

Portuguese		cardiomiopatia. (various references)

Spanish		cardiomiopatía (myocardiopathy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cardiomyopathy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-m-o-o-p-r-t-y-y"
	-3 letters: cardiopathy.
	-5 letters: chiropody, chromatid, dichotomy, dichromat, myocardia, myopathic.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-m-o-o-p-r-t-y-y"
	+3 letters: parathyroidectomy.
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