HEART DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart disease mean? 

• HEART DISEASE (noun)
  The noun HEART DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a disease of the heart

  Familiarity information: HEART DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cardiopathy; heart disease

Hypernyms ("heart disease" is a kind of...):

cardiovascular disease (a disease of the heart or blood vessels)

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

coronary heart disease (a heart disease due to an abnormality of the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the heart)

angina; angina pectoris (a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart)

arrhythmia; cardiac arrhythmia (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)

cardiomyopathy; myocardiopathy (a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium))

coronary failure; heart failure (inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions)

valvular heart disease (heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation)

rheumatic heart disease (heart disease caused by recurrent episodes of rheumatic fever; characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood)

 Context examples 

Causes include skull trauma, middle ear infection, congenital heart disease, and frontal and ethmoid sinus infection.

(Cerebral Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

Disruption and modulation of CD40 interaction with CD40L may prove therapeutic in the treatment of autoimmune disorders, heart disease, and cancer.

(CD40L Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Too much cholesterol in the blood may build up in blood vessel walls, block blood flow to tissues and organs, and increase the risk of developing heart disease and stroke.

(Cholesterol, NCI Dictionary)

High levels of cholesterol in the blood can increase your risk of heart disease.

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

Heart disease which occurs as a result of a primary pulmonary disease.

(Chronic Pulmonary Heart Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Blocking this pathway at various steps may prevent heart disease through the prevention of cardiac hypertrophy, but may also have other consequences.

(Cardiac Hypertrophy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in the absence of structural heart disease, associated with a baseline ECG pattern during sinus rhythm showing right bundle branch block with ST segment elevation in leads V1 through V3.

(Brugada Syndrome Ventricular Arrhythmia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The team next evaluated the association between APOC3 mutations and the risk of coronary heart disease in about 111,000 participants of European, African, and Hispanic ancestry.

(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)

Years of heavy drinking can lead to liver disease, heart disease, cancer and pancreatitis.

(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

They are being studied in the prevention of cancer, heart disease, and other diseases.

(Bioactive compound, NCI Dictionary)