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PURKINJE'S SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Purkinje's system mean? 

PURKINJE'S SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun PURKINJE'S SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contractplay

  Familiarity information: PURKINJE'S SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PURKINJE'S SYSTEM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

Purkinje's system; Purkinje's tissue; Purkinje network

Hypernyms ("Purkinje's system" is a kind of...):

cardiac muscle; heart muscle (the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction)

Meronyms (parts of "Purkinje's system"):

Purkinje fiber (a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network)


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