CARDIOMYOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiomyopathy mean? 

• CARDIOMYOPATHY (noun)
  The noun CARDIOMYOPATHY has 1 sense:

1. a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium)

  Familiarity information: CARDIOMYOPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIOMYOPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cardiomyopathy; myocardiopathy

Hypernyms ("cardiomyopathy" is a kind of...):

cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardiomyopathy"):

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with several keratodermas and cardiomyopathies.

(DSP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The defect involves both the right ventricle and the tricuspid valve, and can lead to cardiomyopathy and tachyarrhythmias.

(Ebstein Anomaly, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include hypertension, cardiomyopathy, angiokeratomas, neuropathy, hypohidrosis, keratopathy, proteinuria, and renal failure.

(Fabry Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with cardiomyopathy dilated X-linked type 3B and with both the Duchenne and Becker types of muscular dystrophy.

(DMD wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heart muscle disease characterised by dilation and impaired contraction of the left or both ventricles that results in progressive heart failure and sudden cardiac death from ventricular arrhythmia.

(Dilated Cardiomyopathy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Mutation of the gene is associated with myopathy myofibrillar desmin-related, cardiomyopathy dilated type 1I and neurogenic scapuloperoneal syndrome Kaeser type.

(DES wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Diabetic heart disease can be coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure, and diabetic cardiomyopathy.

(Diabetic Heart Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Cardiomyopathy which is characterized by dilation and contractile dysfunction of the left and right ventricles.

(Dilated Cardiomyopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by mutations in the genes encoding components of the sarcomere, in the absence of predisposing conditions.

(Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Additional abnormalities include brain malformations, facial malformations, dilated cardiomyopathy, and hepatomegaly.

(Glutaric Acidemia Type 2, NCI Thesaurus)