A medical condition characterized by stricture or narrowing of the cardiac opening of the stomach.
From Greek 'kardia' meaning 'heart' (here referring to the stomach's opening) combined with 'arctos' meaning 'narrow' or 'tight.' This is a 19th-century medical term describing anatomical stenosis.
Cardiarctia is a medical term that almost nobody uses anymore because modern endoscopy lets doctors see and treat stomach narrowing directly, but it shows how physicians once had to describe internal problems using only external symptoms and imagination.
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