Anat. [Gr. καρδία heart, also ‘cardiac orifice of the stomach’ (Liddell and Scott); so in mod.F.] The upper or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the œsophagus enters it.
1782. W. Heberden, Comm., xxv. (1806), 140. From the fauces to the cardia.
1880. Huxley, Cray-Fish, ii. 52. In a man’s stomach the opening by which the gullet communicates with the stomach is called Cardia.
