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Webster 1913 Edition

Myocardium

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Myˊo-car′di-um

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], muscle + [GREEK] heart.]

(Anat.)

The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

Definition 2024

myocardium

myocardium

English

Noun

myocardium ‎(plural myocardiums or myocardia)

(anatomy, cardiology) The muscular substance of the heart; the middle of the three layers forming the outer wall of the human heart.

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Translations

muscles that surround and power the heart

Catalan: miocardi (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心肌 (zh) ‎(xīnjī)
Czech: myokard m
Finnish: sydänlihas (fi)
French: myocarde (fr) m
German: Myokard (de) n

Greek: μυοκάρδιο (el) n ‎(myokárdio)
Italian: miocardio (it) m
Japanese: 心筋 ‎(しんきん, shinkin)
Portuguese: miocárdio m
Romanian: miocard (ro) n, mușchi al inimii m
Russian: миока́рд (ru) m ‎(miokárd)
Swedish: hjärtmuskulatur (sv) c, myokardium (sv)

External links

myocardium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
myocardium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
cardiac muscle in Wikipedia