myocardium
Americannoun
plural
myocardianoun
Other Word Forms
- myocardial adjective
Etymology
Origin of myocardium
Example Sentences
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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 impulse from the apex up the ventricular myocardium, causing the ventricles to contract.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The heart is composed of three layers; the epicardium, the myocardium, and the endocardium, illustrated in Figure 31.11.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Some of this blood moves through the coronary arteries into the myocardium, and some moves through the carotid arteries to the brain.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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
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