pericardium

pericardium

English

Noun

pericardium (plural pericardia)

1. (anatomy, cardiology) A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract.
   • 1685, Samuel Collins, “Of the Diseases of the Pericardium, and their Cures”, in The Second Volume, containing The Parts of the Middle and Highest Apartiment of Man's Body (And other Animals):

     The Pericardium is sometimes swelled, as overcharged with too great a quantity of Serous Liquor, making a kind of Dropsie […]

Synonyms

• heart sac
• theca cordis

Related terms

• pericardiac
• pericardial
• pericarditis

Derived terms

• chylopericardium
• haemopericardium
• hemopericardium
• hydropericardium
• hyperpericardium
• pneumopericardium

 

Translations

serous membrane that surrounds the heart

Arabic: شَغَاف‎ (šaḡāf), شَغَف‎ (šaḡaf) Catalan: pericardi (ca) m Czech: osrdečník (cs) m, osrdečnice f, perikard m Finnish: sydänpussi (fi), pericardium (fi) French: péricarde (fr) m Greek: περικάρδιο (el) n (perikárdio) Icelandic: gollurshús n

Italian: pericardio (it) m Japanese: 心嚢 (shinnō) Romanian: pericard (ro) n Russian: перикард (ru) (perikard) Spanish: pericardio (es) m Swedish: perikardium (sv) n, hjärtsäck (sv) c Tagalog: bambampuso

See also

• endocardium
• myocardium