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The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

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

Cardiac.

A pain about the heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Cardiograph.

A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

Seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]…

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians. -- n.

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. Pericardial fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid of a pale yellow color contained in the pericardium.

Pericardiac.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Situated under the endocardium.