See Also: Cardiac muscle(health)
cardiac muscle(medicine)
cardiac muscle tissue(medicine)
cardiac muscle wrap(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Autogenous(health)
autogenous(dictionary)
autogenous(medicine)
autogenous keratoplasty(medicine)
autogenous control(medicine)

cardiac muscle wrap (medicine) and autogenous (medicine)


cardiac muscle wrap (medicine)


cardiac muscle wrap -->
cardiomyoplasty


An operation that uses stimulated latissimus dorsi muscle (skeletal muscle ventricle) to assist cardiac function. The latissimus dorsi muscle is mobilised from the chest wall and moved into the thorax through the bed of the resected 2nd or 3rd rib. The muscle is then wrapped around the left and right ventricles and stimulated to contract during cardiac systole by means of an implanted burst-stimulator.


autogenous (medicine)


autogenous


1. <biology> Self-generated; produced independently.

2. <anatomy> Developed from an independent center of ossification. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

Origin: Gr.; self + root of to be born.

Source: Websters Dictionary