Pericardium

Definition: Pericardium

Pericardium

Noun

1. A double-layered serous membrane that surrounds the heart.

Date "pericardium" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Pericardium \Per`i*car"di*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from about or near the heart; about heart.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Pericardium

Domain	Definitions
Health	The fibroserous sac surrounding the heart and the roots of the great vessels. (references)
Medicine	The conical sac of serous membrane that encloses the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels of vertebrates and consists of an outer fibrous coat that. . . invests the heart. . Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pericardium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The pericardium is a sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels. It normally contains a small amount of pericardial fluid which lubricates the movement of the heart against the pericardial sac.

Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium. It can cause fluid to build up in the sac. Excessive amounts of fluid may lead to cardiac tamponade by physically blocking the heart from beating properly or compression of the great vessels of the heart.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pericardium."

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Crosswords: Pericardium

English words defined with "pericardium": epicardium ♦ parietal pericardium, pericardiac, pericardial, pericardial cavity, Pericardial fluid, pericardial space, pericardial vein, pericarditis, Pericarditus, Pleuropericardial ♦ Subpericardial ♦ vena pericardiaca, visceral pericardium. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pericardium": Pericardial Effusion, Pericardial Window Techniques, Pericardiectomy, Pericarditis, Tuberculous ♦ Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular ♦ Ventricular Pressure. (references)

Etymologies containing "pericardium": Pericarditus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pericardium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (pericardium).

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Commercial Usage: Pericardium

Domain	Title
Books	Pericardium in Health and Disease (reference) The pericardium (reference) (more book examples)
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Expressions: Pericardium

Expressions using "pericardium": parietal pericardium ♦ visceral pericardium. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pericardium

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
pericardium	33
bovine pericardium	4
calcification pericardium	3
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Modern Translations: Pericardium

Language		Translations for "pericardium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		perikard, cipë e zemrës. (various references)

Bulgarian		перикардий, перикард. (various references)

Chinese		心包. (various references)

Danish		pericardium, hjertesaek, hjertesæk. (various references)

Dutch		pericardium, hartzakje. (various references)

Farsi		غشاء خارجی قلب , اطراف قلب . (various references)

French		péricarde. (various references)

German		Perikard, Pericardium, Herzbeutel. (various references)

Greek		περικάρδιο. (various references)

Hebrew		מסב �"לב. (various references)

Hungarian		szívburok. (various references)

Italian		pericardio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心嚢 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"のう (Imperial prince, prince of royal blood). (various references)

Korean		심장막. (various references)

Manx		skiart y chree. (various references)

Pig Latin		ericardiumpay

Portuguese		pericardite (pericarditis), pericárdio (pericarp). (various references)

Romanian		pericard. (various references)

Russian		околосердечная сумка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		perikardijum, oko srca. (various references)

Spanish		pericardio. (various references)

Swedish		hjärtsäck. (various references)

Turkish		perikard, kâlp zarı. (various references)

Ukranian		перикард. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Pericardium

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	perikardion. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pericardium. (various references)
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Misspellings: Pericardium

Misspellings
	"Pericardium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paricard, pericadium, perocardium, precordium. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pericardium"

Words rhyming with "pericardium" (pronounced 'Per`i*car"di*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pericardium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-m-p-r-r-u"
	-1 letter: epicardium.
	-2 letters: parricide.
	-3 letters: aecidium, cirriped, crimpier, impaired, impairer, peridium.
	-4 letters: acrider, admirer, campier, carried, cramped, crimped, crimper, crumped, curdier, curried, dimeric, dumpier, eardrum, empiric, imperia, married, parried, peracid, peridia, prairie, pricier, pumiced, pumicer, rapider, umpired, uraemic.
	-5 letters: adipic, admire, aecium, airier, amidic, apercu, arider, armure, camped, camper, carder, caried, carped, carper, cerium, craped, cruder.
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