heart muscle

Questions about heart muscle

What does heart muscle mean?

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

What is another word for heart muscle?

Close synonyms include cardiac muscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heart muscle a common word?

heart muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.