PURKINJE FIBER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network

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Nouns denoting body parts

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

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

Holonyms ("Purkinje fiber" is a part of...):

Purkinje's system; Purkinje's tissue; Purkinje network (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)

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