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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Probably due to a lack of calcium, which helps sustain cardiac muscle contraction.
    — Dena Rifkin, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2011
  • 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
  • That is, their collaterals can completely reroute the blood flow after any blockage in the coronary arteries, so there’s no cardiac muscle death.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • With fewer cells and less contraction, the buildup of toxic material in cardiac muscle cells can ultimately lead to heart failure.
    — Justin Quiles, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The apparatus sent pulses to the cardiac muscle to establish normal and regular contractions.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Precise Bio says its 3D printing system could eventually support other tissues like cardiac muscle, liver and kidney cells.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • In humans myosin proteins are widely distributed throughout the body, with different classes being expressed in specific tissues; for example, certain isoforms are abundant in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle, while others are found in epithelial cells, neurons, and immune cells.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026

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