- Endocarditis
- encdo-kar-di'tis
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- Inflammation of the endocardium. Syn: encarditis.
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- abacterial thrombotic endocarditis
- acute bacterial endocarditis
- atypical verrucous endocarditis
- bacteria-free stage of bacterial endocarditis
- bacterial endocarditis
- cachectic endocarditis
- endocarditis chordalis
- constrictive endocarditis
- infectious endocarditis
- isolated parietal endocarditis
- Libman-Sacks endocarditis
- Löffler's endocarditis
- Loffler's parietal fibroplastic endocarditis
- malignant endocarditis
- marantic endocarditis
- mural endocarditis
- mycotic endocarditis
- nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
- nonbacterial verrucous endocarditis
- polypous endocarditis
- rheumatic endocarditis
- septic endocarditis
- subacute bacterial endocarditis
- terminal endocarditis
- valvular endocarditis
- vegetative endocarditiscy.
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Endocardium, pl. Endocardia
en-do-kar'dee'um,
[NA]. The innermost tunic of the heart, which includes endothelium and subendothelial
connective tissue; in the atrial wall, smooth muscle and numerous elastic fibers
also occur.
Origin
[endo- + G. kardia, heart]