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What is the medical term used to describe all the disease of the heart muscle?
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∙ 11y ago
Myocardium is the medical term meaning heart muscle.
Cardiac Muscle.
Cardiac muscle
Cardiac Muscle; there are only three types of muscles, cardiac ~ heart, smooth ~ intestines, stomach, etc, and skeletal =~the ones you use on your arms or legs; muscles attached to bones.
It's name, as a muscle of the body, is the "myocardium".
Cardiac (cardi = heart + ac = pertaining to) musclerefers the the specific type of muscle found in the heart. It is heavily striated, involuntary and has intercalated disks to aid with electrical transmission.
Myocardium (myo = muscle + cardi = heart + um = noun form) is that layer of the heart devoted to the cardiac muscle.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agomyocardial
My/o = muscle
Cardi/o = heart
-al = pertaining to
myocardium
That would be cardiac muscle.
Myocardial is the term.
Myocardial means pertaining to the muscle of the heart.
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∙ 8y agoCardiomyopathy is the medical term meaning any disease of the heart muscle.
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