The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pericardiac \Per`i*car"di*ac\, Pericardial \Per`i*car"di*al\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.
Pericardial fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid of a pale yellow color contained in the pericardium.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context cardiology English) Of, or relating to the pericardium. 2 surrounding or next to the heart.
WordNet
adj. located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium; "pericardial space" [syn: pericardiac]
Wikipedia
Pericardial can refer to:
- Pericardial sinus
- Pericardium
- Pericardial effusion
Usage examples of "pericardial".
The cause of death was as obvious as the bits of shrapnel glowing on the X-ray box, and when at last the torso gaped open, and she saw the taut pericardial sac and the pockets of hemorrhage throughout the lungs, she was not surprised.
The impoverished condition of the blood, which led to serous effusions within the ventricles of the brain, and around the brain and spinal cord, and into the pericardial and abdominal cavities, was gradually induced by the action of several causes, but chiefly by the character of the food.
Then we open up the pericardial sac and draw blood for blood cultures.
There was much muscle wastage, there was fluid in the lungs, her pericardial sac was enlarged, and she was suffering from Dry Lung Syndrome, presumably caused by the low-pressure recirculated air of your spacecraft.
The culprit this time was pure enthusiasm, not the rush of blood into his pericardial sac.
Blood from her torn aorta had filled the chest cavity and also flooded the pericardial sac.
Crush trauma to face and chest, pericardial rupture, fracture of hip and femur.
On dissection it was found that the wound had entered the intercostal muscles between the fifth and sixth ribs and the pericardial sac.
Her aortic arch, pulmonary artery, heart, and pericardial sac were penetrated.
The impoverished condition of the blood, which led to serous effusions within the ventricles of the brain, and around the brain and spinal cord, and into the pericardial and abdominal cavities, was gradually induced by the action of several causes, but chiefly by the character of the food.
The surgery had been relatively easy as these things went: a bit of shrapnel had nicked the pericardium, and there had been bleeding into the pericardial sac with associated cardiac tamponade.
Under the smashed xiphoid, she saw the pulse of the bluish-brown pericardial sac, streaked with fat.
Knowing whether Martha's pericardial sac was filled with blood would not only assuage a medical curiosity, it might also give a hint as to how long she survived as she bled from other stab wounds.
Ruptures the heart, and the pericardial sac self-seals on the way out.
I'm going to fill the pericardial sac with water and insert a needle into the heart, again to see if any bubbles form.