Dictionary

cardia en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.

Meanings

1. The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
   • After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration. 2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes:
   • In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia. 2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300:
   • The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer. 2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus:

Forms

Deriveds

cardial · noncardia

Translations (15)

fr orifice de l'estomac (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · scn vucca 'i l'arma (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · cmn 賁門 /贲门 (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · fi mahansuu (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · de Magenmund (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · sv övre magmunnen (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · hu gyomorszáj (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · cs kardie (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · sv cardia (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · is munnahluti maga (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · nan-hbl 賁門 /贲门 (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · cs česlo (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · ja 噴門 (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · it cardias (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach) · ca càrdies (section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach)