myocardium
The muscular substance of the heart; the middle of the three layers forming the outer wall of the human heart.
A kind of
- cardiac muscle
Related words
- endomyocardium
- intramyocardium
- midmyocardium
- myocardiac
- myocardial
- myocardial infarction
- myocarditis
Word history
From Ancient Greek "μῦς" (muscle).
Where this comes from
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