RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rheumatic heart disease mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)

 Context examples 

The backward flow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve; it may be acute or chronic, usually due to mitral valve prolapse, rheumatic heart disease or a complication of cardiac dilatation.

(Mitral Valve Regurgitation, NCI Thesaurus)