An area of conducting tissue between the atria and the ventricles of the heart that conducts the normal electrical impulse from the atria to the ventricles. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_cjm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrioventricular_node ]
Synonyms: atrioventricular nodal muscle tissue AV node Aschoff-Tawara node nodus atrioventricularis AV nodal muscle tissue node of Tawara
Term information
- GAID:558
- VHOG:0001474
- SCTID:277688002
- MAT:0000498
- EMAPA:35153
- TAO:0005070
- FMA:9478
- MA:0000095
- EFO:0000276
- MESH:D001283
- EHDAA2:0004183
- NCIT:C32161
- BTO:0005689
- Wikipedia:Atrioventricular_node
- ZFA:0005070
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
A-V node
atriovetricular node
nodus atrioventricularis
downstream pacemaker
atrio-ventricular node
Term relations
- conducting tissue of heart
- cardiac muscle tissue of interatrial septum
- cardiac muscle tissue of myocardium
- connected to some interatrial septum
- contributes to morphology of some conducting system of heart
- connected to some crista terminalis
- part of some conducting system of heart