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HEART SAC [4 records]

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Record 1 2017-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
CONT

When tuberculosis spreads to the pericardium(the membranous sac around the heart), the pericardium becomes distended with fluid, a condition called tuberculous pericarditis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
DEF

Atteinte des séreuses (du cœur) d'origine tuberculeuse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
DEF

The fibroserous membrane, consisting of mesothelium and submesothelial connective tissue, covering the heart and beginning of the great vessels.

OBS

Plural: pericardia.

Key term(s)
  • pericardia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
DEF

Sac sérologique enveloppant le cœur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Corazón
DEF

Cápsula, membrana o teca del corazón; bolsa cardíaca; membrana fibroserosa que consta de mesotelio y tejido conjuntivo submesotelial y cubre el corazón y el de los grandes vasos. Es una bolsa cerrada que tiene dos capas: la capa visceral o epicardio, que rodea inmediatamente el corazón, y la capa parietal externa, que forma la bolsa y se compone de tejido fibroso fuerte (pericardio fibroso) tapizado por una membrana serosa (pericardio seroso). El nervio frénico divide al pericardio en una parte antefrénica y otra retrofrénica; el hilio del pulmón divide a su vez a cada una de estas partes en una porción suprahiliar, una hiliar y una infrahiliar.

CONT

El pericardio [...] se compone de dos partes: una, exterior o superficial, fibrosa, es el saco fibroso pericárdico; la otra, profunda, es la serosa pericárdica.

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Record 3 1998-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
DEF

An aneurysm in which the entire wall is injured and the blood is contained by the surrounding tissues, with eventual formation of a sac communicating with the artery or heart.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
DEF

Tumeur vasculaire due à l'organisation, au contact d'une blessure artérielle, d'un hématome qui constitue un faux sac communiquant avec l'artère par un collet.

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
DEF

inflammation of the outer coat of the heart sac caused by an object which inflicts an injury. In cattle, in which this condition is commonest, it is often produced by a sharp foreign body wandering from the second stomach, through the diaphragm, and so into the pericardial sac.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie

Spanish

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