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Noun: atrioventricular trunk
  1. A bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract
    - atrioventricular bundle, bundle of His, truncus atrioventricularis

Derived forms: atrioventricular trunks

Type of: cardiac muscle, heart muscle