MYOCARDIOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myocardiopathy mean? 

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

1. a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOCARDIOPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cardiomyopathy; myocardiopathy

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

cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)

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

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (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)