Term: rheumatic heart disease: heart disease caused by recurrent episodes of rheumatic fever; characterized by changes in the myocardium or scarring of the heart valves that reduce the power of the heart to pump blood
Candidate hypernym: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes → 1
Candidate hypernym: fitness: the quality of being qualified → 0
Candidate hypernym: western: a sandwich made from a western omelet → 0
Candidate hypernym: pastor: only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus → 0
Candidate hypernym: blastoma: a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells → 0
Candidate hypernym: teju: large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food → 0
Candidate hypernym: squat: the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels → 0
Candidate hypernym: beam-ends: (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel;  means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical → 0
Candidate hypernym: argentinian: a native or inhabitant of Argentina → 0
Candidate hypernym: halophyte: plant growing naturally in very salty soil → 0
Candidate hypernym: perineotomy: surgical incision into the perineum → 0