Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated in front of the heart — that is, cephalad of the heart. Compare precardial.

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  • adjective anatomy anterior to the heart

Etymologies

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From pre- +‎ cardiac

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Examples

  • It is also often found in precardiac patients and those who experience strokes.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • It is also often found in precardiac patients and those who experience strokes.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • It is also often found in precardiac patients and those who experience strokes.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • Gao M, Lough J (2000) Requirement for BMP and FGF signaling during cardiogenic induction in non-precardiac mesoderm is specific, transient, and cooperative.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

  • Rudy-Reil D, Lough J (2004) Avian precardiac endoderm/mesoderm induces cardiac myocyte differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

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