Definition of Myocardial

relating to the muscular tissue of the heart

Examples of Myocardial in a sentence

Since diabetes can damage the heart, it increases the risk of a myocardial infraction.  🔊

Smoking has a negative myocardial affect, damaging the muscles of the heart over time.  🔊

Myocardial arrest is better known as cardiac arrest and occurs when the heart abruptly stops functioning.  🔊

When myocardial contractions are disrupted due to muscle breakdown, fatal heart failure can occur.  🔊

Since the lungs and the heart work hand and hand, pneumonia or other lung infections can cause myocardial problems as well.  🔊

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