Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to pericarditis
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There were some old pericarditic adhesions over the left side of the left ventricle, and on separating these the heart-wall was torn through, and from the adherent infiltrated clot it was evident that at least a partial præ-mortem tearing of the heart-wall had occurred here, and perhaps complete perforation at a small rent, permitting of a slight hæmorrhage at the time of the collapse, 17 days before death.
1885 January, “Part IV.—Notes and News”, in D. Hack Tuke, Geo. H. Savage, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XXX, London: J. and A. Churchill, […], page 642
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