heart disease

Questions about heart disease

What does heart disease mean?

heart disease means "a disease of the heart".

What is another word for heart disease?

Close synonyms include cardiopathy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heart disease a common word?

heart disease 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.