myocardiacadj.
/ˌmʌɪə(ʊ)ˈkɑːdɪak/, U.S. /ˌmaɪoʊˈkɑrdiˌæk/ Medicine. rare.
= myocardial adj.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [adjective] > muscle substance of heart
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1908 Practitioner Oct. 610 As the author says, myocardiac deficiency is the chief indication for the Nauheim treatment.
1940 A. Huxley Let. 7 July (1969) 454 I am still under the weather with..myocardiac weakness.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 551/2 In a few cases [of trichinaris]..the symptoms may get worse and death may occur due to myocardiac failure.
1998 European Jrnl. Gastroenterol. & Hepatol. 10 969 It is important to differentiate this condition from myocardiac infarction, dissecting aneurysm and other acute surgical conditions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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