rheumatic heart disease

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   heart disease caused by recurrent episodes of rheumatic fever; characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood

   Broaderheart disease

Questions about rheumatic heart disease

What does rheumatic heart disease mean?

rheumatic heart disease means "heart disease caused by recurrent episodes of rheumatic fever; characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood".

Is rheumatic heart disease a common word?

rheumatic 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.