How to Use cardiac muscle in a Sentence

cardiac muscle

noun

• But when their heart is scanned, no blood vessel blockage or death of cardiac muscle is seen.
  — Time, 1 Dec. 2022
• Researchers built the fish using paper, gelatin, two layers of cardiac muscle tissue—one on the left side and one on the right—and a plastic fin, per the study.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2022
• The whole thing was powered by putting it in a solution with sugar, which the cardiac muscle cells would absorb.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• The transplant surgeons had clipped some pieces of Astrea’s cardiac muscle.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2018
• In the heart, this causes cardiac muscle cells to contract with more force than necessary, for instance.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
• To figure out what cells the virus might infect, the researchers directed stem cells to produce cardiac muscle cells, then exposed those to the virus.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
• But because the heart has its own needs too, some of those vessels form a filigree of coronary arteries that laces through the cardiac muscle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• The researchers behind the paper, based at Harvard, decided to use cardiac muscle cells to power their robot.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• In the heart, the action potential [electrical signal that travels along nerves – Ed] propagates as a wave through cardiac muscle.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2012
• Unhealthy fats can accumulate in your dog’s blood vessels, causing strain on cardiac muscle and blood vessel walls.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2022
• The researchers used a variety of blood tests to look for proteins that normally reside inside cardiac muscle cells but can be released into the blood when those cells get damaged.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
• Probably due to a lack of calcium, which helps sustain cardiac muscle contraction.
  — Dena Rifkin, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2011
• Thinking in a New Way A normal heart beats when its organic pacemaker sends out regular, timed electrical signals through the cardiac muscle.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• The findings, though preliminary, indicate it’s possible to prod cardiac muscle cells into regenerating, at least long enough to stave off some of the worst after-effects of a heart attack.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 3 July 2021
• By encouraging growth of new muscle, the treatment, called VentriGel, is intended to reduce scar formation and increase cardiac muscle.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
• Weird, deadly electrical rhythms arose out of his dying cardiac muscles, like ripples on a stagnating pond, necessitating defibrillating shocks to reset his rhythm.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• In the neuromuscular area, the company is looking into multiple diseases driven by genetic defects in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and the peripheral nervous system.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024