(trik″o-kahr´de-ә) a hairy appearance of the heart due to exudative pericarditis.
trichocardia, shaggy pericardium 1. Pericardial inflammation with elevations resembling hair. 2. A pericardium coated with a roughened layer of fibrinous exudate (substance that has oozed out the essential portion of a blood clot).