Your Heart Health Glossary of Terms
MIKEYs: Public Access Defibrillators, also called Automatic External Defibrillators. Defibrillator can hard to spell and even harder to say, so we call them MIKEYs. (see AED, PAD, Defibrillator)
Myocardial infarct: Occurs when one or more regions of the heart muscle experiences a severe or prolonged decrease in oxygen supply caused by a blocked blood flow to the heart muscle, which causes the heart to stop. Also known as a heart attack.
Myocardial Ischemia: An insufficient blood flow to part of the heart.
Myocarditis: Inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart
Myocardium: The muscular layer of the heart.
Disclaimer: All glossary definitions were created by The Mikey Network for educational use on this website.