Definition of "myocarditis" [‖my•o•car•di•tis]

• Inflammation of the myocardium. (noun)

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• "Around one in five cocaine addicts suffer from an inflammation of heart muscle, known as myocarditis, and the researchers said that a quarter of non-fatal heart attacks among the under-45s are associated with cocaine."
• "In a report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Andras Bratincsak of Rady Children's Hospital and the University of California San Diego reported on four cases of a heart inflammation called myocarditis among children there in just one month."
• "Doctors say died from a rare heart disease called myocarditis, or the inflammation of the heart muscle."