Word Meanings - CARDIOLGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which treats of the heart and its functions.

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• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• HEART'S-EASE
  A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
• HEARTYHALE
  Good for the heart.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• HEARTLESS
  1. Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster. 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing. 3. Destitute of
• HEARTSEED
  A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.
• HEARTBURN
  An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
• HEARTPEA
  See HEARTSEED
• HEARTY
  1. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government. Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss. Marston.
• HEARTLET
  A little heart.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• PSEUDO-HEART
  Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.
• HEN-HEARTED
  Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.