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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἐπί

upon +

καρδία

heart.]

(Anat.)

That part of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

epicardium ‎(plural epicardia)

layer of tissue between the pericardium and the heart