myocardial
/maɪoʊˈkɑɹdi.əl/adjective
myocardial is an adjective meaning “Relating to the myocardium, the thick muscular wall of the heart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-O-C-A-R-D-I-A-L and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does myocardial mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to the myocardium, the thick muscular wall of the heart.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce myocardial?
- UK /maɪəʊˈkɑːdi.əl/
- US /maɪoʊˈkɑɹdi.əl/
Myocardial has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-myocardial.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is myocardial?
Myocardial appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Myocardial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the myocardium:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | myocardique |
| Spanish | miocárdico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.