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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.
Medical Definition of Atrioventricular node
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrioventricular Node
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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