pericarditis

English

Etymology

From pericard(ium) +‎ -itis.

Noun

pericarditis (countable and uncountable, plural pericarditides or pericardites)

1. (cardiology, pathology) Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart.

   Hypernyms: carditis, cardiopathy

   Coordinate terms: endocarditis, myocarditis, pancarditis, perimyoendocarditis

Translations

inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب التَّأْمُور m (iltihāb at-taʔmūr)
• Catalan: pericarditis (ca) f
• Czech: perikarditida f, zánět osrdečníku m
• Dutch: hartvliesontsteking f
• Esperanto: perikardiito
• Finnish: sydänpussitulehdus
• French: péricardite (fr) f
• German: Perikarditis f, Herzbeutelentzündung (de) f
• Greek: περικαρδίτιδα (el) f (perikardítida)
• Italian: pericardite (it) f
• Persian: پریکاردیت (fa) (perikârdit)
• Polish: zapalenie osierdzia n
• Romanian: pericardită (ro) f
• Russian: перикарди́т (ru) m (perikardít)
• Spanish: pericarditis (es) f
• Turkish: perikardit

Spanish

Etymology

From pericardio +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɾikaɾˈditis/ [pe.ɾi.kaɾˈð̞i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: pe‧ri‧car‧di‧tis

Noun

pericarditis f (plural pericarditis)

1. (cardiology, pathology) pericarditis

Further reading

• “pericarditis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10