pancarditis
- noun
- /ˌpæn.kɑːrˈdaɪ.tɪs/
- Specialized
- 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
1
8.9
Swelling that happens in the heart or the thin tissue around it, usually from infection
How Extensive
- Specialized
- Specialized
2
8.4
- Specialized
6
9.1
- Specialized
2
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.