English Explanatory Dictionary

cardioskeletal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to the heart and the skeleton.
  2. Relating to both cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, two types of striated muscle (in various animals including humans) that can both be affected by, for example, desminopathies or dystrophinopathies, causing myopathies of cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue.

Word forms

cardioskeletal

Etymology

From cardio- + skeletal.

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