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When the heart is deprived of blood, ischemia – a shortage of oxygen – can damage its muscle tissue, or myocardium, reducing function and health once it is transplanted.
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New Atlas, 17 Apr. 2025
Instead, the immune system is responding to the vaccine in a way that also happens to react with heart cells in the myocardium.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
Myocarditis is a disease that causes inflammation in a middle layer of the heart muscle called the myocardium.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
Myocarditis is inflammation of the myocardium, the muscles in the heart, according to Medline Plus.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
Hemorrhagic softening of the myocardium, liver, kidneys and spleen.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2019
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New Atlas, 17 Apr. 2025
Instead, the immune system is responding to the vaccine in a way that also happens to react with heart cells in the myocardium.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
Myocarditis is a disease that causes inflammation in a middle layer of the heart muscle called the myocardium.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
Myocarditis is inflammation of the myocardium, the muscles in the heart, according to Medline Plus.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
Hemorrhagic softening of the myocardium, liver, kidneys and spleen.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2019
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“Myocardium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myocardium. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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myocardium
noun
myo·car·di·um
ˌmī-ə-ˈkärd-ē-əm 
: the middle muscular layer of the wall of the heart
Medical Definition
myocardium
noun
myo·car·di·um
ˌmī-ə-ˈkärd-ē-əm
plural myocardia
-ē-ə
: the middle muscular layer of the heart wall
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