antiheart

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adjective

Pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.

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Meanings

adjectiveantiheart (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.

    Titers of antiheart antibodies appeared to persist in patients with rheumatic recurrences.

    2012, Herman Friedman, Noel R. Rose, Mauro Bendinelli, Microorganisms and Autoimmune Diseases, →ISBN, page 29
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    Then it can be presumed that antiheart serum, subsequently administered, causes yolk sac dysfunction of a higher degree, resulting in a distrubance in the metabolite transport essential to cardiogenesis.

    1984, James J. Nora, Atsuyoshi Takao, Congenital Heart Disease: Causes and Processes, page 334

    Common antigenic determinants have been shown between streptococcal proteins and heart autoantigens, and T cell response to these determinants leads to the appearance of antiheart autoimmunity.

    2011, Nancy M. Khardori, Biologic Response Modifiers in Infectious Diseases, →ISBN

Origin

From anti- + heart.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

antiearth
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APA

antiheart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiheart

MLA

“antiheart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiheart. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiheart,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiheart.

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