Medicine & BodyGreek → English
Cardiac
/ˈkɑːdiæk/
Relating to the heart.
The Greek roots
καρδία
kardía
heart
Literally: “of the heart”
Follow a root:καρδία9 words
The story of the word
Greek kardía is the ancestor of a whole family of medical terms — cardiology, tachycardia, pericardium — all circling the heart.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The patient was moved to the cardiac unit for observation.