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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.

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.

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

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

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

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

Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

o called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18). To whom also he showed himself alive a…

Pericardiac.

Pericardiac.