cardiologyn.
/ˌkɑːdɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌkɑrdiˈɑlədʒi/ The scientific study of the heart; (in later use) spec. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the heart.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > branches dealing with specific parts
haematology1811
dermatology1813
cardiology1837
laryngology1842
pharyngology1842
glossology1844
haematics1854
urology1855
odontonosology1857
otiatrics1857
otiatry1857
trichology1860
trichopathy1860
urinology1860
psychoneurology1865
otology1874
rhinology1874
rhinolaryngology1888
sphygmology1890
otolaryngology1897
proctology1899
otorhinolaryngology1900
gastro-enterology1904
neuroendocrinology1922
urodynamics1954
pulmonology1955
psychoneuroendocrinology1970
1837 Analyst 7 75 Shall we study the bones, constituting the science of Osteology? or the heart, called the science of Cardiology?
1892 Clinique 13 403 In the first place it is almost an aphorism in cardiology that ‘an irritable heart is a weak heart’, and the usual expression of irritability is rapidity and irregularity.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 8 July 95/1 This is the first major textbook of cardiology compiled in English by multiple authors.
2012 Independent 19 Mar. 6/3 Sanjay Sharma, professor of cardiology at St George's Hospital, Tooting, south London,..runs Britain's only cardiac unit for sportsmen and -women.
Derivatives
cardiological adj.
Brit. /ˌkɑːdɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
, /ˌkɑːdɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/U.S. /ˌkɑrdiəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/
of or relating to cardiology.In quot. 1884 used with reference to knowledge of the heart considered as the seat of love and affection./ˌkɑrdiəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > dealing with specific parts
neurological1832
rhinological1838
urological1855
otiatric1857
systatic1858
cardiological1884
rhinolaryngological1885
trichological1887
laryngological1888
dermatological1891
neurologic1896
urologic1897
otolaryngologic1898
otolaryngological1898
rhinolaryngologic1898
proctologic1899
proctological1899
stomatological1913
cardio1928
otorhinolaryngological1929
sphygmological1931
haematological1946
haematologic1947
neuroendocrinological1963
urodynamic1963
the world > life > the body > study of body > study of muscles > [adjective] > specific
cardiological1884
1884 Homœopathic World Feb. 75 It might be deemed a daring deed for one who is only a man to presume to add to the cardiological knowledge of those whose prime prerogative lies in heart-work; but then, ladies, it must be my business to consider the ‘Heart and its Work’ principally from the stand-point of the anatomy room and of the physiological laboratory.
1909 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Aug. 513/2 Such tracings can as a rule only be taken in hospitals, but if they were obtained cardiological inexactitudes would be avoided.
1927 Daily Tel. 21 June 15 The cardiological department contains an electrocardiograph.
2008 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 Oct. 8 We don't do transplants, we don't do invasive cardiological procedures.
cardiologic adj.
Brit. /ˌkɑːdɪə(ʊ)ˈlɒdʒɪk/
, /ˌkɑːdɪə(ʊ)ˈlɒdʒɪk/U.S. /ˌkɑrdiəˈlɑdʒɪk/
somewhat rare of or relating to cardiology; = cardiological adj./ˌkɑrdiəˈlɑdʒɪk/ΚΠ
1919 Arch. Internal Med. 24 51 An intensive study of the condition in cardiologic practice.
2020 J. J. van der Smagt & J. Ingles in H. F. Baars et al. Clin. Cardiogenetics (ed. 3) ii. 49/2 The care for individuals with genetic cardiac disease and their relatives requires both cardiologic and genetic expertise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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