Purkinje fibre
(US Purkinje fiber) Anatomy
noun
A type of specialized cardiac muscle fibre responsible for the conduction of excitation from the atrioventricular node to the remainder of the ventricular myocardium.
Origin
Late 19th century. Described by Purkinje in Archiv f. Anat., Physiol., u. wissensch. Med. 294; compare German Purkinje'schen Fäden.