ENDOCARDITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endocarditis mean? 

• ENDOCARDITIS (noun)
  The noun ENDOCARDITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves

  Familiarity information: ENDOCARDITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOCARDITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("endocarditis" is a kind of...):

carditis (inflammation of the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endocarditis"):

subacute bacterial endocarditis (a chronic bacterial infection of the endocardium and heart valves; symptoms develop slowly)

 Context examples 

G. elegans is commensal, being found in normal human oral flora, but may be associated with infective endocarditis.

(Granulicatella elegans, NCI Thesaurus)

H. parainfluenzae is a commensal organism of the oral cavity and pharynx but may become pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals or individuals with underlying disease, being a causative agent of endocarditis.

(Haemophilus parainfluenzae, NCI Thesaurus)

G. adiancens is a pathogen which can be isolated from the throat, blood or urine and most commonly causes endocarditis.

(Granulicatella adiacens, NCI Thesaurus)

A. urinae is found in the urinary tract and is associated with urinary tract infections, sepsis, and endocarditis.

(Aerococcus urinae, NCI Thesaurus)

Bacterial endocarditis can damage your heart valves.

(Endocarditis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Representative examples include endocarditis, pericarditis, atrial myxoma, cardiac myeloid sarcoma, and pericardial malignant mesothelioma.

(Heart Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

K. dentrificans is a commensal organism found in the upper respiratory tract and while it is thought to be mostly nonpathogenic, it has been associated with at least one case of infective endocarditis.

(Kingella denitrificans, NCI Thesaurus)

N. flavescens is commensal in the human oral cavity and can become pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals causing endocarditis, meningitis, and septicemia.

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, only people at high risk of endocarditis need the antibiotics.

(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Clinical course may proceed to non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis.

(Lipase Hypersecretion Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)