antiheart

adj

Etymology

From anti- + heart.

  1. inherited from *ḱérd — “heart
  2. inherited from *hertô
  3. inherited from *hertā
  4. inherited from heorte
  5. inherited from herte
  6. prefixed as antiheart — “anti + heart

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.

    • Then it can be presumed that antiheart serum, subsequently administered, causes yolk sac dysfunction of a higher degree, resulting in a distrubance in the metabolite transport essential to cardiogenesis.
    • Common antigenic determinants have been shown between streptococcal proteins and heart autoantigens, and T cell response to these determinants leads to the appearance of antiheart autoimmunity.
    • Titers of antiheart antibodies appeared to persist in patients with rheumatic recurrences.

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