Crossword clues for myocardium
myocardium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Myocardium \My`o*car"di*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, muscle + ? heart.] (Anat.) The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy cardiology English) The muscular substance of the heart; the middle of the three layers forming the outer wall of the human heart.
WordNet
n. the middle muscular layer of the heart wall
[also: myocardia (pl)]
Usage examples of "myocardium".
Researchers who had successfully demonstrated how stem cells could actually form new myocardium to replace the old tended to think it was the surrounding normal tissue that directed the process.
The new ceils are expected to restore the injured areas of his myocardium, returning them to normal function within 6 to 12 weeks.
Had the chief resident succeeded in giving an additional dose to Bessie, however, he would have entrenched the problem, rendering her myocardium twice as resistant to treatment, and she could have died.
His entire myocardium could end up squirming like a useless sack of worms, in other words, complete cardiac arrest.
Even now her myocardium could overreact to the electrical impulses of its own conduction system and fly into overdrive.
Yet when her patients came back after another three months, in more than half the cases their echocardiograms showed a marked improvement in the contractile strength of the affected myocardium.
Goodman stopped the oxygen, thinking that maybe the myocardium or heart muscle was particularly sensitive to the high oxygen levels that were obviously in the blood.
Grey nodes of neuroectoderm protruded from the skin in irregular patches, whilst squirming reddish masses of myocardium pulsed in the orbits of the eye sockets.