myocardium

myocardium

English

Etymology

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

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

• 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 m 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) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: masûlkeya dil 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• myocardium in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• cardiac muscle in Wikipedia

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /my.oˈkar.di.um/, [myɔˈkärd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.oˈkar.di.um/, [mioˈkärd̪ium]

Noun

myocardium n (genitive myocardiī or myocardī); second declension

1. myocardium
2. muscular substance of the heart

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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).