pericardial, a.
(pɛrɪˈkɑːdɪəl)
[f. pericardi-um + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, occurring in, or connected with the pericardium. (In quot. 1654 app. used for ‘cordial’.)
pericardial fluid, the serous fluid or lymph secreted by the inner layer of the pericardium.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. iv. 51 Her breasts..never leaves the trepidations, till she hath got a Pericardiall Julip, which she loves at her heart. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. ii, Without which Pericardial Tissue the Bones and Muscles (of Industry) were inert, or animated only by a Galvanic vitality. 1846 P. M. Latham Lect. Clin. Med. xxiii. 105 The effects of pericardial inflammation. 1880 Günther Fishes 151 The pericardial and peritoneal sacs. |
So periˈcardian, periˈcardic [F. péricardique (Cotgr.)] adjs., in same sense.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Pericardian, belonging to the Perichard,..a membrane..involving the whole heart. Ibid. s.v. Vein, Pericardick Vein, the second branch of one of the two main ascendant branches of the hollow vein; whence it runnes to the Pericardium. 1868 Duncan tr. Figuier's Insect W. Introd. 13 By the aid of this..the blood can penetrate the heart from the pericardic chamber. |