CARDIAC MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiac muscle mean? 

• CARDIAC MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun CARDIAC MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction

  Familiarity information: CARDIAC MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIAC MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cardiac muscle; heart muscle

Hypernyms ("cardiac muscle" is a kind of...):

muscle; muscular tissue (animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardiac muscle"):

cardiac pacemaker; pacemaker; SA node; sinoatrial node (a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat)

papillary muscle (any of several muscles associated with the atrioventricular valves)

atrioventricular bundle; atrioventricular trunk; bundle of His; truncus atrioventricularis (a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract)

atrioventricular node (a node of specialized heart muscle located in the septal wall of the right atrium; receives impulses from the sinoatrial node and transmits them to atrioventricular bundle)

myocardium (the middle muscular layer of the heart wall)

Purkinje fiber (a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network)

Purkinje's system; Purkinje's tissue; Purkinje network (a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract)

Holonyms ("cardiac muscle" is a part of...):

heart; pump; ticker (the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body)

 Context examples 

The intercellular structures including the fascia adherens, gap junctions and macula adherens that connect single cardiac muscle cells to allow for synchronized contractions.

(Intercalated Disk, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also inhibits glycogen phosphorylase in cardiac muscle and may protect the heart from myocardial ischemic injury by preserving glycogen content and improving glycolytic-oxidative coupling.

(Ingliforib, NCI Thesaurus)

Elevated levels of cAMP increase the contractile force of the cardiac muscle and produce positive inotropic effects.

(Inamrinone, NCI Thesaurus)

The muscle tissue of the HEART composed of striated, involuntary muscle known as cardiac muscle.

(Heart Muscle, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Severe interruption of the blood supply to the myocardial tissue may result in necrosis of cardiac muscle (myocardial infarction).

(Ischemic Heart Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes leukotriene B4 receptor 1 protein, plays a role in the regulation of the inflammatory system and is involved in the regulation of cardiac muscle contraction.

(LTB4R wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Physiologically, this agent causes relaxation of bronchial smooth muscle, produces vasodilation (except in cerebral vessels), stimulates cardiac muscle, as well as induces diuresis and gastric acid secretion.

(Oxtriphylline, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign or malignant mesenchymal neoplasm arising from smooth, skeletal, or cardiac muscle.

(Myomatous Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in transcriptional regulation that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle development and differentiation of neurons.

(Myocyte-Specific Enhancer Factor 2D, NCI Thesaurus)

The striated muscle tissue is further subdivided into skeletal, visceral striated, and cardiac muscle.

(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)