Medical Dictionary

Purkinje's network

noun

Medical Definition of PURKINJE'S NETWORK

:  a network of intracardiac conducting tissue made up of syncytial Purkinje fibers that lie in the myocardium and constitute the bundle of His and other conducting tracts which spread out from the sinoatrial node—called also Purkinje's system, Purkinje's tissue

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