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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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We will study the role of macrophages and particularly analyse a subtype, which accumulates in the outer mesothelial layer of the heart, the epicardium.
That work involved in effect turning the clock back in a layer of cells on the outside of the heart, called the epicardium, making adult cells think they were embryos again and thereby restarting their ability to repair.
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.
Additional conduction delay from endocardium to epicardium then moves the J wave out of the QRS complex.
Coronary vessels supplying arterial blood to the heart penetrate the epicardium before entering the myocardium.

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