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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, near, or relating to the heart.
  • adjective Of or relating to the cardia.
  • noun A person with a heart disorder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the heart.
  • Exciting action in the heart; having the quality of stimulating action in the circulatory system.
  • Hence Cordial; producing strength and cheerfulness.
  • Pertaining to the esophageal portion of the stomach: opposed to pyloric.
  • noun A medicine which excites action in the stomach and animates the spirits; a cordial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart.
  • adjective (Med.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
  • adjective (Med.), [Archaic] cardialgia; heartburn.
  • adjective (Mach.) See Heart wheel.
  • noun (Med.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to the heart.
  • adjective Pertaining to the cardia.
  • noun medicine A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the heart

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos, from kardiā, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek καρδιακός (kardiakos, "relating to the heart"), from καρδία (kardia, "heart"). Distantly related to English courage, which is from Latin, but of same Proto-Indo-European root.

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