antiheart

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ heart

Adjective

antiheart (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an autoimmune response affecting the heart.
    • 1984, James J. Nora, Atsuyoshi Takao, Congenital Heart Disease: Causes and Processes, page 334:
      Then it can be presumed that antiheart serum, subsequently administered, causes yolk sac dysfunction of a higher degree, resulting in a distrubance in the metabolite transport essential to cardiogenesis.
    • 2011, Nancy M. Khardori, Biologic Response Modifiers in Infectious Diseases, →ISBN:
      Common antigenic determinants have been shown between streptococcal proteins and heart autoantigens, and T cell response to these determinants leads to the appearance of antiheart autoimmunity.
    • 2012, Herman Friedman, Noel R. Rose, Mauro Bendinelli, Microorganisms and Autoimmune Diseases, →ISBN, page 29:
      Titers of antiheart antibodies appeared to persist in patients with rheumatic recurrences.

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