Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rheumatic_heart_disease

1 sense of rheumatic heart disease

Sense 1
rheumatic heart disease -- (heart disease caused by recurrent episodes of rheumatic fever; characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood)
       => heart disease, cardiopathy -- (a disease of the heart)