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cardiomegaly

noun

cardiomegaly is a noun meaning “megalocardia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-M-E-G-A-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cardiomegaly is cardiomegalies.

What does cardiomegaly mean?

noun

  1. 1

    megalocardia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of cardiomegaly

  • cardiomegalies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cardiomegaly?

Cardiomegaly appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does cardiomegaly come from?

From cardio- + -megaly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).