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ATHLETE'S HEART
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Dictionary entry overview: What does athlete's heart mean?
• ATHLETE'S HEART (noun)
The noun ATHLETE'S HEART has 1 sense:
1. enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance
Familiarity information: ATHLETE'S HEART used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("athlete's heart" is a kind of...):
heart; pump; ticker (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)
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