Cardiac is the medical term usually used when referring to the heart. When joined as a combining form with another suffix or word to form another term, cardiac becomes Cardio-. For example, Cardiovascular.
Cardio- = heart and vascular = blood vessels.
Cor is another word that is Latin for heart. It is used in medicine to refer to the heart. For example, Cor pulmonale (a severe condition of the heart). Another term from the Latin root is Coronary, which also means heart. For example, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, AKA CABG (called also "cabbage"), is the medical term for a "heart bypass".
The medical term for the surrounding structures of the heart is "pericardium." It is a double-layered sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels. The pericardium helps protect the heart and keeps it in place within the chest cavity.
"Primary cardiac (heart) tumor (growth)" is the term for cancer that arises in the heart. They are extremely rare. When they do occur, the cancer is generally identified by the specific tissue in which it resides. A cancer that originates in the heart would generally be a sarcoma (sarc = meat + oma = growth).
Pericardial is the medical term meaning surrounding the heart.
The medical term is "pericardial." This term refers to anything related to the pericardium, which is the double-layered membrane that surrounds the heart and holds it in place in the chest cavity.
Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac around the heart.
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Cardiac auscultation is the medical term meaning listening to the heart.
Myocardial infarction is the medical term meaning damage to the heart muscle.
Myelitis is the medical term meaning inflammation of the fibrous tissue surrounding a nerve. An example is poliomyelitis.
Fibrillation is the medical term meaning rapid uncoordinated shuddering of the heart.
Situs inversus is the medical term meaning reversal of the normal position of the heart.
Cardiopathy is the general term meaning any disease of the heart.
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