Definition of Atrioventricular node

1. Noun. A node of specialized heart muscle located in the septal wall of the right atrium; receives impulses from the sinoatrial node and transmits them to atrioventricular bundle.

Generic synonyms: Cardiac Muscle, Heart Muscle

Medical Definition of Atrioventricular node

1. The location in the heart's conduction system, between the atria and the ventricles, which conducts the normal electrical impulse from the atria to the ventricles. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrioventricular Node

atrioventricular canal cushions
atrioventricular conduction
atrioventricular conduction abnormalities
atrioventricular connections
atrioventricular dissociation
atrioventricular extrasystole
atrioventricular gradient
atrioventricular groove
atrioventricular interval
atrioventricular junctional bigeminy
atrioventricular junctional rhythm
atrioventricular junctional tachycardia
atrioventricular nodal branch
atrioventricular nodal extrasystole
atrioventricular nodal rhythm
atrioventricular node (current term)
atrioventricular septum
atrioventricular sulcus
atrioventricular trunk
atrioventricular valve
atrioventricular valves
atrip
atriplicism
atrist
atrium cordis
atrium dextrum
atrium dextrum cordis
atrium glottidis
atrium meatus medii

Literary usage of Atrioventricular node

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"These impulses travel in the walls of the atria, causing atrial contraction, and rapidly reach the atrioventricular node, which also lies in the right ..."

2. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"The atrioventricular node lies near the orifice of the coronary sinus in the annular and septal fibers of the right atrium; from it the atrioventricular ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The atrioventricular node lies near the orifice of the coronary sinus in the annular and septal fibres of the right atrium; from it the atrioventricular ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"(2) A phase of extrasystole when the atrioventricular node is abnormally active, and when the extra- systoles thus produced bring about a condition of ..."

5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"produced experimentally in the cat by depression of the sino- auricular node and of the junction between the atrioventricular node and auricle.6 In 1916 3 ..."

6. Hearts and Arteries: What Scientists Are Learning About Age and the by Caroline McNeil (1994)
"atrioventricular node A group of special muscular fibers at the base of the wall between the right atrium and ventricle. They relay the electrical impulses ..."

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