pancarditis
- noun
- /ˌpæn.kɑːrˈdaɪ.tɪs/
- Specialized
:
pancarditis
- The patient experienced severe symptoms resulting from pancarditis, which includes inflammation of the epicardium, myocardium, and endocardium.
Examples
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After a thorough examination, the doctor diagnosed him with pancarditis, indicating inflammation of all layers of his heart.
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Following the infection, she developed pancarditis, leading to complications that affected her heart's overall function.
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In addition to affecting the cardiac valves, rheumatic heart disease is a pancarditis affecting, to various degrees, the endocardium, myocardium, and pericardium.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
Swelling that happens in the heart or the thin tissue around it, usually from infection
How Extensive
- Specialized
- Specialized
1
8.4
- Specialized
6
9.1
- Specialized
3
8.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
pancarditis = carditis (transparent) = pan + cardi + itis
Adding the prefix 'pan-' meaning 'all' to the medical base 'carditis' (inflammation of the heart) yields the predictable meaning 'inflammation of all layers of the heart'.
Etymology
Pancarditis comes from three parts: pan- meaning 'all', as in pandemic; card- meaning 'heart', as in cardio; and -itis meaning 'inflammation'. So, pancarditis is 'inflammation' that affects all the layers of the heart.