noun

• Chronic disease of the heart muscle.

  ‘Thus, we now have the possibility to discover disease genes that cause cardiomyopathy and heart failure.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Excessive chronic alcohol consumption also leads to dilated cardiomyopathy (alcoholic heart muscle disease).’
  • ‘Some of them present with muscle weakness and muscle breakdown, some of them present with cardiomyopathy, heart muscle disease, liver disease.’
  • ‘It was there in 1999 that she suffered the loss of her beloved daughter Vicky from an hereditary heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy.’
  • ‘First, the AIDS virus can infect the heart and cause cardiomyopathy.’