enlarged heart
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- noun
- /ɪnˈlɑrdʒd hɑrt/
- Specialized
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corazón agrandado
- He was diagnosed with an enlarged heart after experiencing shortness of breath during exercise.
And then another, like right after that, another friend dies with an enlarged heart that nobody knew he had.
- And then another, like right after that, another friend dies with an enlarged heart that nobody knew he had.
- And the nervous system registers that as the blood moving more slowly through that temporarily enlarged heart.
Examples
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I have an enlarged heart, a spleen and a diseased liver.
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In what wasn't a major move, but some view as a massive blow, Channing Frye is out indefinitely after being diagnosed with an enlarged heart.
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If your doctor told you today that you had an enlarged heart, this would not be good news.
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And then another, like right after that, another friend dies with an enlarged heart that nobody knew he had.
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While they are there, the father, who is known to be suffering from an enlarged heart, dies.
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He had a very enlarged heart.
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He's suffering from an enlarged heart.
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Injury Report: Phoenix center Channing Frye is out for the season with an enlarged heart.
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Frye developed dilated cardiomyopathy, which is an enlarged heart.
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A pathologist reported that the man had an enlarged heart, and while he did not drink enough caffeine to be fatal under normal circumstances, the high levels may have contributed to his death.
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Synonyms
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A heart that is larger than normal and often seen on a chest X-ray
A heart that is larger than normal
An unusually large heart
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition where 'enlarged' (increased in size) modifies 'heart' (the organ), so the meaning 'a heart larger than normal' is directly derivable from the parts. This medical collocation follows a transparent, cross-linguistic compositional pattern and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Enlarged heart gives a clear picture: a heart that has grown bigger because it must work harder. That's why the term means 'a heart larger than normal', often from hard exercise or from health problems.