English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek περικάρδιον (perikárdion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpɛɹɪˈkɑː(ɹ)di.əm/
Noun
pericardium (plural pericardia or pericardiums)
- (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 […]
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Translations
serous membrane that surrounds the heart
- Arabic: تَأْمُور m (taʔmūr)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܬܚܦܝܬܐ ܕܠܒܐ f (taḥpīṯā ḏə-lebbā)
- Armenian: սրտակրանք (hy) (srtakrankʻ)
- Catalan: pericardi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 心包 (zh) (xīnbāo)
- Czech: osrdečník (cs) m, osrdečnice f, perikard m
- Dutch: pericardium (nl) n, hartzakje (nl) n
- Finnish: sydänpussi (fi), perikardium (fi)
- French: péricarde (fr) m
- German: Herzbeutel (de) m, Perikard n
- Greek: περικάρδιο (el) n (perikárdio)
- Icelandic: gollurshús n
- Indonesian: perikardium (id)
- Italian: pericardio (it) m
- Japanese: 心嚢 (ja) (shinnō)
- Korean: 심낭(心囊) (ko) (simnang), 심막(心膜) (simmak)
- Lithuanian: širdiplėvė f
- Persian: پیراشامه (pirâšâme), آبشامه (fa) (âb-šâme), پریکارد (perikârd)
- Polish: osierdzie (pl) n
- Romanian: pericard (ro) n
- Russian: перикард (ru) (perikard), околосе́рдие (ru) n (okolosérdije) (obsolete)
- Spanish: pericardio (es) m
- Swedish: perikardium (sv) n, hjärtsäck (sv) c
- Tagalog: bambampuso
- Turkish: perikard
- Welsh: pilen y galon f
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