HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mean? 

• HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (noun)
  The noun HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY has 1 sense:

1. a disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability

  Familiarity information: HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

A genetic metabolic disorder causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

(Glycogen Storage Disease Type IIb, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by mutations in the genes encoding components of the sarcomere, in the absence of predisposing conditions.

(Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

This is often the result of ventricular dilation due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

(Hyperdynamic Ventricular Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary myocardial disorder with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance that is characterized by hypertrophy of the left ventricles with histological features of myocyte hypertrophy, myofibrillar disarray, and interstitial fibrosis.

(Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)