Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun purkinje_network

1 sense of purkinje network

Sense 1
Purkinje network, Purkinje's tissue, Purkinje's system -- (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)
       => cardiac muscle, heart muscle -- (the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction)