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cardia
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Word definitions for cardia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardia \Car"di*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? heart, or upper orifice of the stomach.] (Anat.) The heart. The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cardia (in Greek Kαρδία ), anciently the chief town of the Thracian Chersonese (today Gallipoli peninsula), was situated at the head of the Gulf of Melas (today the Gulf of Saros ). It was originally a colony of the Milesians and Clazomenians ; but subsequently, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach. 2 (context anatomy English) The heart.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus
Usage examples of cardia.
The Cardia Nostra was divided into families, each headed by a patriarch, or don, like Big Billy in Boston, Big Maxie in New York, Big Charley in Philly and Big Mike in Houston.
In Cleveland the paterfamilias of the Cardia Nostra was Big Amos, a don somewhat younger than Big Maxie.
America, then, was the hotbed of Cardiac surgery, and young surgeons from all over the world enlisted in the Cardia Nostra.
That made it four surgeons, three scrub nurses, two circulating nurses, Big Charley’s pump-oxygenator which was the biggest in the Cardia Nostra and the eight Filipino soldiers who made it run.
Several high-ranking members of the Cardia Nostra, former colleagues of Trapper John’s, managed to get there, slightly obtunded by prenuptial ceremonies held the previous evening.
An older woman, a Capellan named Cardia Ren Harter, might work out as Stationmaster.
But no tortoise had ever been a god, and knew the unwritten motto of the Quisition: Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.