myocardium

English

Etymology

From New Latin myocardium, from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + καρδίᾱ (kardíā, “heart”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

myocardium (plural myocardiums or myocardia)

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

Synonyms

• (muscular substance of the heart): cardiac muscle, heart muscle

Hypernyms

• (muscular substance of the heart): muscle

Derived terms

• endomyocardium
• intramyocardium
• midmyocardium
• myocardiac
• myocardial
• myocardial infarction
• myocarditis

Related terms

• cardiomyopathy
• endocardium
• epicardium
• pericardium

Translations

muscles that surround and power the heart

• Catalan: miocardi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心肌 (zh) (xīnjī)

• Czech: myokard (cs) m
• Finnish: sydänlihas (fi)
• French: myocarde (fr) m
• Galician: miocardio (gl) m
• Georgian: მიოკარდიუმი (mioḳardiumi), მიოკარდი (mioḳardi), გულის კუნთი (gulis ḳunti)
• German: Myokard (de) n, Herzmuskel (de) m
• Greek: μυοκάρδιο (el) n (myokárdio)
• Hungarian: miokardium, szívizom (hu)
• Icelandic: hjartavöðvi (is) m
• Italian: miocardio (it) m
• Japanese: 心筋 (ja) (しんきん, shinkin)
• Korean: 심근(心筋) (ko) (simgeun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: masûlkeya dil

• Polish: mięsień sercowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: miocárdio m
• Romanian: miocard (ro) n, mușchi al inimii m
• Russian: миока́рд (ru) m (miokárd)
• Spanish: miocardio (es) m
• Swedish: hjärtmuskulatur (sv) c, myokardium (sv)

Further reading

• “myocardium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “myocardium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• cardiac muscle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [my.ɔˈkar.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mi.oˈkar.di.um]

Noun

myocardium n (genitive myocardiī or myocardī); second declension

1. myocardium
2. muscular substance of the heart

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	myocardium	myocardia
genitive	myocardiī myocardī1	myocardiōrum
dative	myocardiō	myocardiīs
accusative	myocardium	myocardia
ablative	myocardiō	myocardiīs
vocative	myocardium	myocardia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).