myocardium
myocardium
Definition
myo·car·dium (-kär′dē əm)
my′o·car′·dial adjective
myocardium
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hibernate: Diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer Cardiology - FDG and ammonia investigations of hibernating myocardium, using dynamic and gated imaging techniques.
- call: The greater part of the heart wall is composed of muscle called myocardium.
Adjective modifier
- ventricular: Ventricular myocardium The muscle cells of the ventricles influence the force of contractions by the cardiac muscle.
- normal: Figure 3: Re-entry in normal myocardium; voltage isochrones at 5 ms intervals between 1.00 and 1.12 s after initiation of re-entry.
- viable: It is difficult to obtain viable myocardium including suitable normal tissue.
Noun used with modifier
- host: Ideally, both contraction and integration with host myocardium should have occurred in order for the therapy to be effective.
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