myocardium

1. 1.

   the middle muscular layer of the heart wall

   Broadercardiac muscle

Other forms of myocardium

plural

myocardia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about myocardium

What does myocardium mean?

myocardium means "the middle muscular layer of the heart wall".

How many syllables are in myocardium?

myocardium has 5 syllables: my-o-car-di-um. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌmaɪəˈkɑɹdiəm/.

Is myocardium a common word?

myocardium 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.