heart muscle
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3.5
- noun
- /hɑrt ˈmʌsəl/
- Specialized
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miocardio
- His heart muscle was too weak.
- heart muscle damage
- damaged heart muscle
- heart muscle cells
Yeah, you can actually store fat around your heart and within the heart muscle itself.
- Yeah, you can actually store fat around your heart and within the heart muscle itself.
- But this leads to a reduction in blood flow to key parts of the heart muscle.
- These things did not show an association with increased plaque buildup in the arteries feeding the heart muscle.
- Atrial fibrillation comes from electrical signaling in the heart sort of swirling about in a circle and and reactivating part of the heart muscle faster than it should.
- Meaning as more blood is returned to the heart, there's an adaptation where the heart muscle actually gets stronger and therefore can pump more blood per stroke per beat.
- So I'm always kind of got a inflated or stretched out heart muscle and then I'm doing work against a downstream load.
- So it starts to die in my partial infarction means death of that heart muscle.
Examples
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The foreign stem cells injected into the heart muscle have immediately adapted to their new environment and are regenerating the muscle.
Blog text (30) -
Think of your heart muscle thumping away inside your chest.
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Now in the heart, action potential is moving from one heart muscle cell to another over the surface of the heart.
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Cancer of the heart muscle.
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If you exercise them, heart muscle cells might get bigger, but few or no new ones will be made.
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But your heart muscle goes on working for as long as you live.
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The hope is to get more oxygen to the injured heart muscle by supersaturating the blood.
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Your EKG shows you have a blocked artery... which is not allowing enough oxygen to get to the heart muscle.
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The stretched heart muscle becomes enlarged, misshapen, and baggy, leading to further deterioration in the heart's ability to pump.
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A heart attack victim loses some heart muscle when blood flow to it is blocked.
Synonyms
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7.5
Thick middle layer of the heart wall that contracts to pump blood
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3.8
Muscle in the heart that contracts regularly to pump blood
How Automatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the muscle tissue of the heart' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'heart' (the pumping organ) with 'muscle' (tissue that produces movement). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and is immediately predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Heart muscle is a simple picture: the heart is the body's 'pump' and the muscle is the strong tissue that squeezes it. So heart muscle means the tissue that makes the heart 'beat' and push blood.