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    PURKINJE NETWORK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (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 contractplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("Purkinje network" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (parts of "Purkinje network"):

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

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