myocardium
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The Nature Biomedical Engineering study described the material as an intravascularly infused extracellular matrix biomaterial made from decellularized, enzymatically digested, and fractionated ventricular myocardium.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
They then fit a silicone wrapping around it, which acted as a soft, synthetic myocardium, or muscular lining.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023
Purkinje fibers conduct the impulse from the apex up the ventricular myocardium, causing the ventricles to contract.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The myocardium consists of the heart muscle cells that make up the middle layer and the bulk of the heart wall.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
He stepped on his switch and said, “There are two lacerations of the myocardium; a one-point-five-centimeter laceration in the right ventricle and a one-point-eight-centimeter laceration penetrating the left ventricle.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
I had rather severe attacks of myocardia that summer, three so bad that I prescribed bed rest of several days for myself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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