Myocardium

Definition: Myocardium

Myocardium

Noun

1. The middle muscular layer of the heart wall.

Etymology: Myocardium \My`o*car"di*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression muscle heart.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Myocardium

Domain	Definition
Health	The muscle tissue of the heart composed of striated, involuntary muscle known as cardiac muscle. (references)
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Crosswords: Myocardium

English words defined with "myocardium": amrinone ♦ Inocor ♦ myocardial, myocardial inflammation, myocardiopathy, myocarditis ♦ pancarditis ♦ rheumatic heart disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "myocardium": AV bundle ♦ cardiac conduction system, cardiac pacing, conducting system of the heart, conduction system of the heart ♦ Encephalitozoonosis, Endomyocardial Fibrosis ♦ His bundle ♦ internodal atrial myocardium, internodal atrial pathways, internodal pathways, Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial ♦ Milrinone, Mitochondria, Heart, Myocardial Diseases ♦ Prototheca ♦ specialized conduction system ♦ Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial ♦ Ventricular Pressure. (references)

Etymologies containing "myocardium": myocarditis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Myocardium

Domain	Title
Books	Regulation of Myocardial Contractile Function and Metabolism: Metabolism of Ischaemic Myocardium (Soviet Medical Reviews Series, Section A) (reference) The Venous Drainage of the Human Myocardium (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and Cell Biology, . V. 168) (reference) The effect of barbiturates on the myocardium and its reversibility (reference) Myocardium at Risk and Viable Myocardium: Evaluation by Spet (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 234) (reference) Metabolic Support of the Stunned Myocardium : An Experimental Study on the Influence of Lipid Emulsions on Myocardial Performance (Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, 213) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Myocardium

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	Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy. Credit: CDC.		Histopathology of active toxoplasmosis of myocardium. Numerous tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii are visible within a pseudocyst in a myocyte. Parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Though not a very common sequela, S. typhi, the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever, can cause myocarditis. Note the leukocytic infiltrate present in the myocardium. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Myocardium

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In the heart, endothelial staining is mainly in the capillaries of the myocardium and varies from focal immunostaining in some cases to diffuse and extensive staining in others. (references)
		The role of metabolic factors such as hyperinsulinemia and parathyroid hormone and calcium phosphorous relationships including tissue calcium burden in the myocardium and methods of its detection should be examined. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Myocardium

"Myocardium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Myocardium" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	20	78,262

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Expression: Myocardium

Expression using "myocardium": internodal atrial myocardium. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Myocardium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
myocardium	17
infarction myocardium	3
hibernating myocardium	2
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Modern Translation: Myocardium

Language		Translations for "myocardium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		myocardium, hjertemuskel. (various references)

Dutch		myocardium, hartspier. (various references)

Finnish		sydänlihas. (various references)

French		myocarde. (various references)

German		Myokard, Herzmuskel. (various references)

Greek		καρδιακή κρίση (cardiac infarction, heart attack, infarction of the myocardium, myocardial infarct, myocardial infarction), έμφρακτο (cardiac infarction, heart attack, infarct, infarction of the myocardium, myocardial infarct, myocardial infarction), έμφραγμα μυοκαρδίου (cardiac infarction, heart attack, infarction of the myocardium, myocardial infarct, myocardial infarction). (various references)

Italian		miocardio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心筋 (heart muscle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"き�" (a relative, credit union, familiarity, fungi, fungus, heart muscle, protractor muscle). (various references)

Korean		심근 (myocardial). (various references)

Pig Latin		yocardiummay

Spanish		infarto de miocardio (cardiac infarction, heart attack, infarction of the myocardium, myocardial infarct, myocardial infarction), IM (cardiac infarction, heart attack, infarction of the myocardium, myocardial infarct, myocardial infarction). (various references)

Turkish		kâlp kası. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Myocardium

Misspellings
	"Myocardium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Myocarde, myocardiac, myocardio. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Myocardium"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "myocardium" (pronounced mī'ukÄ"rdēum)
4	-d ē u m	compendium, idiom, indium, iridium, medium, nephridium, palladium, Plasmodium, podium, presidium, radium, rhodium, sodium, stadium, tedium, vanadium.
3	-ē u m	alluvium, ammonium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, condominium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, gallium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, helium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, millennium, minium, moratorium, neptunium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, pandemonium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, plutonium, polonium, potassium, premium, promethium, protium, psyllium, requiem, selenium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, titanium, tritium, uranium, yttrium, zirconium.
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Anagrams: Myocardium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-m-m-o-r-u-y"
	-3 letters: cadmium, modicum.
	-4 letters: corium, crummy, cymoid, daimyo, maduro, modica, mucoid, myriad, myrica, radium.
	-5 letters: acidy, acrid, amido, amour, aroid, audio, auric, caird, carom, comma, commy, coria, curdy, curia, curio, cymar, dairy, daric, diary, domic, dormy, douma, doura, dummy, duomi, duroc, imaum, macro, mayor, miaou, micra, micro, moira, moray, mucid, mucor, mucro, mudra, murid.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-m-m-o-r-u-y"
	+5 letters: semidocumentary.
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