A condition involving splitting or separation of the heart tissues.
Greek 'kardia' (heart) + 'schisis' (splitting, division), describing pathological separation of cardiac structures. The term was coined to identify congenital or acquired defects where heart tissues separate abnormally.
This rare condition is essentially what happens in extreme forms of cardiac defects—the heart fails to develop as a unified organ, similar to how a birth defect might cause separate chambers to not fuse properly during fetal development.
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