Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of pericardium.

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  • noun Plural form of pericardium.

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Examples

  • She presented to him her hand, which he kissed respectfully, and simultaneously with the contact thirty-two invisible arrows plunged at once into his heart, one from every point of the compass of his pericardia.

    Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • She presented to him her hand, which he kissed respectfully, and simultaneously with the contact thirty-two invisible arrows plunged at once into his heart, one from every point of the compass of his pericardia.

    Maid Marian 1822

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