cardiac

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to the heart or its action

   Fear and joy can both produce cardiac palpitation.

2. 2
   noun

   a person affected by heart disease; a cardiac patient

   The clinic provides supervised exercise for cardiac patients.

From French cardiaque and Latin cardiacus, from Ancient Greek kardiakos ("relating to the heart"), based on kardia ("heart").

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