cardiac muscle
Americannoun
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a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
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the myocardium.
Etymology
Origin of cardiac muscle
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Heart attacks typically kill millions of cardiac muscle cells, leaving the heart in a weakened state.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, causing irreparable damage to cardiac muscle cells.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
The heart is composed of cardiac muscle, an involuntary muscle tissue that is found only within this organ.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
He had also longed hopelessly to give her approximately a pound of flesh—the cardiac muscle, to put it in cold, unromantic terms.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
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