pericardium
Meaning of pericardium
noun
the membrane enclosing the heart, consisting of an outer fibrous layer and an inner double layer of serous membrane.
late Middle English: modern Latin, from Greek perikardion, from peri ‘around’ + kardia ‘heart’.
Information about pericardium
- It is a name.
- The plural form of pericardium is: pericardiums.
- Languages in which pericardium is used:
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Hyphenation of pericardium
peri-cardium
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- pericardium is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of pericardium
- Spanish: pericardio
- French: péricarde
- Italian: pericardio
- Portuguese: pericárdio
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