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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun One of a group of
fibers in theheart , consisting ofspecialized cardiomyocytes , that allow the heart'sconduction system to createsynchronized contractions of itsventricles and thus maintain a consistentrhythm .
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- noun a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Johannes Evangelista von Purkinje, (1787–1869), Bohemian physiologist.]
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Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně.
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