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What does cardiomyopathy mean?
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Weak heart muscle: Weak heart muscle which can be caused by many different reasons.
Answered 12/6/2014
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Muscle disease : Cardio = heart. Myo = muscle. Opathy = poor function/disease. Therefore cardiomyopathy is a disease/poor function of cardiac muscle.
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