heart disease

noun

: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and circulation (such as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or heart-valve defect)

Examples of heart disease in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Despite living healthier lifestyles overall, women’s heart disease risks are often overlooked. —Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 2 Apr. 2025

Manage heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity. —Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 1 Apr. 2025

Extreme heat makes everything from heart disease to mental illness much deadlier, as my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Lisa Jarvis has written. —Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025

Plagued by advanced Alzheimer’s and heart disease, the 95-year-old Hackman is assumed to have died on or about February 18, according to a February 27 autopsy that New Mexico officials discussed in a March 7 press conference. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for heart disease

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Kids Definition

heart disease

noun

: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and blood circulation

Medical Definition

heart disease

noun

: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and circulation (as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or heart-valve defect)