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RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
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I. (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)
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