hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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   a disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability

   Broadercardiomyopathy

Questions about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

What does hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mean?

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy means "a disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability".

Is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy a common word?

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 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.