Purkinje fiber
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Tweet n. One of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers, part of the impulse-conducting network of the heart, that rapidly transmit impulses from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles. [After Johannes Evangelista von Purkinje (1787-1869), Bohemian physiologist.] |
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