cardia
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of cardia
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
“In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.”
“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.”
“After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.”
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noun
-
The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
“In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.”
“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.”
“After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.”
name
- An ancient city in Thrace.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.
Words you can make from cardia
30 playable · top: ACARID (9 pts)
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3 extensions · 3 back
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