Definition of cardiomyopathy in English:
 cardiomyopathy
nounˌkɑːdɪəʊmʌɪˈɒpəθiˌkärdēōmīˈäpəTHē
mass nounMedicine Chronic disease of the heart muscle.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  First, the AIDS virus can infect the heart and cause cardiomyopathy.
 -  Excessive chronic alcohol consumption also leads to dilated cardiomyopathy (alcoholic heart muscle disease).
 -  It was there in 1999 that she suffered the loss of her beloved daughter Vicky from an hereditary heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy.
 -  Some of them present with muscle weakness and muscle breakdown, some of them present with cardiomyopathy, heart muscle disease, liver disease.
 -  Thus, we now have the possibility to discover disease genes that cause cardiomyopathy and heart failure.