- concretio cordis
- Extensive adhesion between parietal and visceral layers of the pericardium with partial or complete obliteration of the pericardial cavity. SYN: internal adhesive pericarditis.
* * *
con·cre·tio cor·dis .kän-'krēt-ē-ō-'kȯrd-əs n adhesive pericarditis with the space between the layers of the pericardium mostly or completely obliterated by dense scar tissue* * *
concretio pericardii a form of adhesive pericarditis in which the pericardial cavity is obliterated.
Medical dictionary. 2011.