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
How To Use atrioventricular node In A Sentence
- Some of the calcium channel blockers also exert an inhibitory effect on the sinus and atrioventricular nodes, causing the heart rate to slow.
- In some patients the atrioventricular node allows retrograde conduction of ventricular impulses to the atria.
- However, another kind of SSS associated with sinus node and atrioventricular node dysfunction, characterized by long P-R interval, has not yet been reported in the literature.
- Objective:To study the morphological changes of atrioventricular junction area (atrioventricular node and atrioventricular bundle) on the myocardial ischemia model of rat.
- In the pig study, the researchers used a standard adenovirus vector to introduce copies of a gene directly into one of the heart's pacemakers, a small area of tissue called the atrioventricular node.
- This acts as the heart's natural pacemaker by conveying electrical impulses to the atrioventricular node, which is located in between the upper and lower chambers.
- In first degree block there is a delay in conduction of the atrial impulse to the ventricles, usually at the level of the atrioventricular node.
