PERICARDITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pericarditis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the pericardium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERICARDITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the pericardium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

carditis (inflammation of the heart)

 Context examples 

Fever is a common symptom of acute pericarditis.

(Pericardial Disorders, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

An electrocardiographic finding of J point and ST segment elevation in the absence of other signs of acute ischemia or pericarditis.

(Early Repolarization, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Representative examples include congestive heart disease, endocarditis, and constrictive pericarditis.

(Non-Neoplastic Heart Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Heart Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

M. lacunata is a commensal organism of the human upper respiratory tract and most commonly associated with eye infections, but has been reported to cause rare invasive infections in humans, including endocarditis, septic arthritis, cellulitis, meningitis, bacteremia and purulent pericarditis.

(Moraxella lacunata, NCI Thesaurus)