CARDIAC

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

2.
a.

Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.

3.
n.

A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

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