tobacco heart

noun

, Pathology.

1. a functional disorder of the heart, characterized by a rapid and often irregular pulse, caused by excessive use of tobacco.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tobacco heart¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Yesterday I read in a paper about a boy in a New York hospital who was said to have a 'tobacco heart' from smoking cigarettes.

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By a tobacco heart it was meant that his heart was so badly affected that it did not perform its action regularly and properly.

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At ages over 40 a clinical study of the tobacco heart is highly instructive from a practical point of view.

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Beginning with the simplest kind of cardio-vascular disorder, let us see what the prognosis is in tobacco heart.

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Those with tobacco heart cannot undergo the usual hardships and they are more apt to succumb to disease.

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