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Cardia

Cardia \Car"di*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? heart, or upper orifice of the stomach.] (Anat.)

  1. The heart.

  2. The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

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cardia

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach. 2 (context anatomy English) The heart.

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cardia

n. the opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus

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Cardia (Thrace)

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, in the time of Miltiades (late 6th century BC), the place also received Athenian colonists, as proved by Miltiades tyranny (515–493 BC). But this didn't make Cardia necessarily always pro-Athenian: when in 357 BC Athens took control of the Chersonese, the latter, under the rule of a Thracian prince, was the only city to remain neutral; but the decisive year was 352 BC when the city concluded a treaty of amity with king Philip II of Macedonia. A great crisis exploded when Diopeithes, an Athenian mercenary captain, had in 343 BC brought Attic settlers to the town; and since Cardia was unwilling to receive them, Philip immediately sent help to the town. The king proposed to settle the dispute between the two cities by arbitration, but Athens refused. The town was destroyed by Lysimachus about 309 BC, and although it was afterwards rebuilt, it never again rose to any degree of prosperity, as Lysimachia, which was built in its vicinity and peopled with the inhabitants of Cardia, became the chief town in that neighbourhood. Cardia was the birthplace of Alexander's secretary Eumenes and of the historian Hieronymus.

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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.