CARDITIS

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Meaning:

Inflammation of the heart

Classified under:

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

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

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

endocarditis (inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves)

myocardial inflammation; myocarditis (inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart))

pancarditis (inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium))

pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium)