| 单词 | athlete's heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasathlete's heart athlete's heart n. [compare slightly earlier athletic heart n. at athletic adj. and n. Compounds 2] a physiological condition (originally believed to be pathological) characterized by structural and functional changes in the heart, esp. reversible left ventricular hypertrophy, associated with long-term sports training; (also) a heart affected by this.In quot. 1892, used spec. for the condition resulting from incompetence of the aortic valve. ΚΠ 1892 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. 602 So often is this form of heart-disease found in persons devoted to athletics that it is sometimes called ‘the athlete's heart’. 1916 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 867/1 It may mean that the heart has become too big for its job, as when an ‘athlete's heart’, trained to push a big stream of blood, keeps on trying to do so when the demands of office work do not require it. 1931 Jrnl. Med. 24 339 The term ‘athlete's heart’—signifying an enlarged heart resulting from athletics—is still far too common in medical parlance. 1976 Leicester Mercury 16 July 12/3 ‘Athlete's heart’ was a term widely used in the 20s and 30s to indicate the presence in an athlete of an enlarged heart which was thought to be unhealthy. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 Dec. b13/3 Mobley believed he merely had an enlarged heart, or ‘athlete's heart’, which can be a benign condition. < as lemmas |
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