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What does epicardium mean?

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Noun
  1. (anatomy) The layer of tissue between the pericardium and the heart.
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Reference to the pericardium, epicardium, myocardium, endocardium and valves, chordae, ventricular thicknesses, and aorta and major vessels may be included.
It has been known that muscle fibers in a heart are arranged in such a way that their orientation changes continuously from endocardium to epicardium of the free wall.
An echocardiogram showed that the tip of the pacemaker catheter extended through the right ventricular apical wall of the epicardium.
The difference in the spacings in the top epicardium layer and the rest of the heart may indicate that sarcomere lengths in those regions are different.
Additional conduction delay from endocardium to epicardium then moves the J wave out of the QRS complex.
In the systolic and diastolic phases of heartbeat, two contour lines were drawn to delineate the endocardium and epicardium.

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