cor pulmonale

1. 1.

   enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart due to disease of the lungs or of the pulmonary blood vessels

   Broaderhypertrophy

Questions about cor pulmonale

What does cor pulmonale mean?

cor pulmonale means "enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart due to disease of the lungs or of the pulmonary blood vessels".

Is cor pulmonale a common word?

cor pulmonale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.