Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a poisonous effect upon the heart.
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- adjective
chemically damaging to the tissues of theheart
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Neurotoxic and cardiotoxic effects of cocaine and ethanol."
Leo Galland, M.D.: Surviving The Super Bowl M.D. Leo Galland 2011
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"Neurotoxic and cardiotoxic effects of cocaine and ethanol."
Leo Galland, M.D.: Surviving The Super Bowl M.D. Leo Galland 2011
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Cocaine, however, can be quite cardiotoxic in the short and/or long terms.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs 2009
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But while daunomycin is toxic to the heart, Kogan, with Dr. Ronen Beeri and Dr. Gergana Marincheva of Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem, found that the quinonoid cannabinoids are much less cardiotoxic.
The federal medical marijuana crackdown. Ann Althouse 2005
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The risks of pharmacotherapy, however, are also greater in the elderly than in younger patients; elderly individuals are more likely to have co-occurring chronic systemic illness and are physiologically more sensitive than younger patients to the anticholinergic, cardiotoxic, and hypotensive effects of medications.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The study authors suggested that breast cancer patients might be more susceptible to side effects from Avastin than some other cancer patients because of prior or simultaneous use of other cardiotoxic drugs.
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The study authors suggested that breast cancer patients might be more susceptible to side effects from Avastin than some other cancer patients because of prior or simultaneous use of other cardiotoxic drugs.
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The study authors suggested that breast cancer patients might be more susceptible to side effects from Avastin than some other cancer patients because of prior or simultaneous use of other cardiotoxic drugs.
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"Continued monitoring of all childhood cancer survivors treated with potentially cardiotoxic therapy with or without subclinical cardiac dysfunction is necessary to identify childhood cancer survivors who could possibly benefit from early treatment, which could avoid further deterioration of cardiac function," they concluded.
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"Continued monitoring of all childhood cancer survivors treated with potentially cardiotoxic therapy with or without subclinical cardiac dysfunction is necessary to identify childhood cancer survivors who could possibly benefit from early treatment, which could avoid further deterioration of cardiac function."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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