cardiac

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to the heart.
• Pertaining to the cardia; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).
• Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

Noun

• A person with heart disease.
• Heart disease.
• A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

Related

Opposite words

• noncardiac

Origin

• From Middle French cardiaque, from Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek καρδιακός, from καρδία.