cor (kor) [L.] heart.
cor
acute cor pulmonale acute overload of the right ventricle due to pulmonary hypertension, usually due to acute pulmonary embolism.
cor adipo´sum fatty heart (2).
cor bilocula´re a two-chambered heart with one atrium and one ventricle, and a common atrioventricular valve, due to failure of formation of the interatrial and interventricular septa.
cor bovi´num a greatly enlarged heart resulting from a hypertrophied or dilated left ventricle.
chronic cor pulmonale heart disease due to pulmonary hypertension secondary to disease of the lung or its blood vessels, with hypertrophy of the right ventricle.
cor triatria´tum a heart with three atrial chambers, the pulmonary veins emptying into an accessory chamber above the true left atrium and communicating with it by a small opening.
cor trilocula´re three-chambered heart.
cor trilocula´re biatria´tum a three-chambered heart with two atria communicating, by the tricuspid and mitral valves, with a single ventricle.
cor trilocula´re biventricula´re a three-chambered heart with one atrium and two ventricles.
| cor (kôr) n. pl. cor·da (kôr  d ) Heart. |
cor
[kôr]
1 the heart.
2 relating to the heart.
cor
[L.] cordis. See also heart.
cor adiposum
a heart that has undergone fatty degeneration or that has an accumulation of fat around it.
cor biloculare
congenital defect with only two chambers in the heart.
cor bovinum
a greatly enlarged heart due to a hypertrophied left ventricle, an inappropriate term when said of cattle.
cor pulmonale
right ventricular heart failure due to pulmonary hypertension secondary to disease of blood vessels of the lung; usually chronic and due to COPD or heartworm disease. Clinical signs are those of right-sided congestive heart failure.
cor rugosum
see cor villosum (below).
cor triatriatum dexter
a rare congenital anomaly in which the right atrium is divided into two chambers by a persistence of the right sinus venosus valve resulting in obstruction of venous return.
cor triatriatum sinister
a rare congenital heart defect in which the left atrium is divided into two distinct chambers by a fibromuscular membrane.
cor triloculare
a congenital defect of a heart with three chambers, which may be one atrium or one ventricle.
cor villosum
means hairy heart; when the epicardium is covered with shaggy fibrinous tags as a result of chronic pericarditis.
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