A condition involving the breaking, fracture, or rupture of heart tissue or cardiac structures.
From cardio- (Greek kardia, 'heart') + -clasia (from Greek klasis, 'breaking' or 'fracture'). Medical term from Greek combining forms used to describe cardiac tissue damage.
The -clasia suffix appears in medical terms like osteoclasia (bone breaking) and hemoclasia (blood destruction)—it describes destructive processes at the tissue level, making it one of medicine's more ominous-sounding suffixes.
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