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[venetia]

Acardiac (a-kar’-di-ak).
Having no heart. An acardiac monster has two bodies, but only one heart which supplies blood to both.

-Honnor Morten, The Nurse’s Dictionary Faber & Faber, 1932

Comments

[andrewrotch]

A former resident at my house, given to rich foods and slow cooked meaty treats and sauces, had a heart condition the name of which escapes me. The chief sympton, however, was memorable: his heart was shrinking.

[venetia]

Oh! I knew a woman whose body was "eating her own heart". Metaphors come back to bite us, so to speak.

[moxiemylove]

There's a long scroll-like sheet of paper hanging from my ceiling named "wonderful words to know" with "acardiac.." scribbled on the bottom...right...now!

[venetia]

By the by, I heard the Billie H version of that song the other day.

[moxiemylove]

She's a beautiful nightingale that sings.