How to Use pericardium in a Sentence

pericardium

noun
  • Gore-Tex fabric was used to place a patch over the holes in the pericardium around each of their hearts.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Jesus’s heart, in other words, couldn’t be contained by his pericardium.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The goods news is that their hearts were separate as well, sharing only the lining around the heart – the pericardium.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 22 Apr. 2021
  • They are attached at the lower chest and abdomen and share their chest wall, diaphragm, pericardium and liver.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • Chest pain occurs when the swollen and irritated layers of the pericardium rub against each other.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The branch on the pine log went far enough into my chest to perforate my pericardium—that’s the membrane surrounding my heart.
    — Outside Online, 10 June 2022
  • The pericardium--the thin membrane that forms a sac around the heart--helps hold the fist-sized muscle in place, and keeps it from overexpanding.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac or pericardium around the heart.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2021
  • Anastrozole can cause heart problems, but these are usually related to the blood vessels of the heart, not the heart muscle or the pericardium.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The pericardium relic is expected to be in Rome for the day of Acutis' canonization.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As a pediatric emergency medicine physician, Smith said he's seen pellets pierce the skull and enter the brain and lodge near the pericardium, the sac that protects the heart.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a spot between the tendons—about two or three finger widths above the center of your inner wrist—called the pericardium 6 (PC6).
    — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health.com, 1 July 2020
  • Bleakley talked about an older dog that was referred to him by an oncologist for an abnormality with excess fluid in the pericardium around the dog’s heart.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The other, more complete specimen retained a structure similar to a living scorpion's pericardium, which surrounds the heart.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
  • In extreme cases the entire pericardium needs to be removed in a procedure called a pericardiectomy, often advised when the sac becomes completely rigid.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In one passage, recommendations for a form of tracing paper included paper rubbed with linseed oil or pork fat, the amniotic membrane of a cow’s embryo, or the pericardium of an ox.
    — Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • While suffering the effects of an inflamed pericardium, Nuis posted a hospital-bed photo on Instagram, next to one of him recovered and chilling topless at training camp.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Anthony Figueiredo, a British priest with the Diocese of Assisi, handles a sliver of the boy's pericardium — the sac that surrounds the heart — that is touring the world as a religious relic.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025

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