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

  • noun Enlargement of the heart.

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  • noun megalocardia

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  • noun an abnormal enlargement of the heart

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  • Enlarged heart, medically called cardiomegaly, is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition.

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  • This article deals with cardiomegaly, which is heart enlargement.

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  • An enlarged heart, also called cardiomegaly, is not a disease but a symptom.

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  • An enlarged heart, also called cardiomegaly, is not a disease but a symptom.

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  • This article deals with cardiomegaly, which is heart enlargement.

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  • If it were any heartier, it would actually suffer from inflammatory cardiomegaly.

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  • An autopsy today found the cause of Hammerdorfer's death was cardiomegaly and biventricular hypertrophy, which refers to an enlarged heart and enlarged ventricles.

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  • Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

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  • This must be a beneficial condition.

    November 15, 2009