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Webster 1913 Edition
Acardiac
A-car′di-ac
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK];
ἀ
priv. + [GREEK] heart.] Without a heart;
as, an
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acardiac
acardiac
English
Adjective
acardiac (not comparable)
- (medicine, anatomy) Lacking a heart.
- 1831, Marshall Hall, A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood, page 76:
- The fact of a perfect circulation in acardiac fœtuses and acardiac animals, seems strongly to indicate an important influence in the arteries.
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Derived terms
- acardiac twin
- acardiac twinning
Translations
lacking a heart
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