trunk of atrioventricular bundle
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atrioventricular bundle — noun a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract • Syn: ↑bundle of His, ↑atrioventricular trunk, ↑truncus atrioventricularis • Hypernyms: ↑cardiac… … Useful english dictionary
bundle of His — his n a slender bundle of modified cardiac muscle that passes from the atrioventricular node in the right atrium to the right and left ventricles by way of the septum and that maintains the normal sequence of the heartbeat by conducting the wave… … Medical dictionary
bundle — A structure composed of a group of fibers, muscular or nervous; a fasciculus. SYN: fasciculus (3) [TA]. aberrant bundles a group, or groups, of fibers from the corticobulbar or corticonuclear tract, directed to each of the motor … Medical dictionary
bundle of His — noun a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract • Syn: ↑atrioventricular bundle, ↑atrioventricular trunk, ↑truncus atrioventricularis • Hypernyms … Useful english dictionary
trunk — 1. The body (t. or torso), excluding the head and extremities. 2. A primary nerve, vessel, or collection of tissue before its division. 3. A large collecting lymphatic vessel. SYN: truncus [TA]. [L. truncus] … Medical dictionary
atrioventricular trunk — noun a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract • Syn: ↑atrioventricular bundle, ↑bundle of His, ↑truncus atrioventricularis • Hypernyms: ↑cardiac … Useful english dictionary
truncus fasciculi atrioventricularis — trunk of atrioventricular bundle: the undivided portion of the atrioventricular bundle, from its origin at the atrioventricular node to the point of division into the right and left bundle branches at the superior end of the muscular part of the… … Medical dictionary
branch — An offshoot; in anatomy, one of the primary divisions of a nerve or blood vessel. A b.. See ramus, artery, nerve, vein. SYN: ramus (1) [TA]. accessory meningeal b. SYN: pterygomeningeal artery … Medical dictionary
truncus atrioventricularis — noun a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract • Syn: ↑atrioventricular bundle, ↑bundle of His, ↑atrioventricular trunk • Hypernyms: ↑cardiac… … Useful english dictionary
mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… … Universalium
