‖ ˈcardia Anat.
[Gr. καρδία heart, also ‘cardiac orifice of the stomach’ (Liddell and Scott); so in mod.F.]
The upper or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the œsophagus enters it.
| 1782 W. Heberden Comm. xxv. (1806) 140 From the fauces to the cardia. 1880 Huxley Cray-Fish ii. 52 In a man's stomach the opening by which the gullet communicates with the stomach is called Cardia. |