carditis
Noun
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Inflammation of the heart (synset 114362347)
is a type of: inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heatsubtypes:
- endocarditis - inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves
- myocardial inflammation, myocarditis - inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart)
- pancarditis - inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium)
- pericarditis - inflammation of the pericardium
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