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atrioventricular node (AV node)
As the name suggests, (atrioventricular node) it is located between the atrium and ventricle or the top and bottom chamber of one side of the heart.
The heart is about the size of your fist and is located sub-sternal, center thoracic, superior to the stomach with the apex on the left. In English, it is behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone.
The atrioventricular (AV) node which is located in the right atrium. From there is travels down the septum, also called the atrioventricular bundle, and then spreads to all parts of the ventricles via the Purkinje fibers.
The atrioventricular sulcus or groove is where the right coronary artery lies. It is between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
an atrioventricular valve
The bicuspid valve is located between the left atrium and the left ventricle. It is also called the mitral valve or left atrioventricular valve.
the atrioventricular (AV) prevents blood from passing back into the left atrium.
The Heart's own pace makerThe heart beats regularly because it has it's own pacemaker. The pacemaker is a small region of muscle called the sinoatrial, or SA, node. It is in the upper back wall of the right atrium. The node triggers an impulse that causes both atrium to contract. Very quickly, the impulse reaches the atrioventricular, or AV, node at the bottom of the right atrium. Immediately, the atrioventricular node triggers an impulse that causes both ventricles to contract.
The heart beats regularly because it has it's own pacemaker. The pacemaker is a small region of muscle called the sinoatrial, or SA, node. It is in the upper back wall of the right atrium. The node triggers an impulse that causes both atrium to contract. Very quickly, the impulse reaches the atrioventricular, or AV, node at the bottom of the right atrium. Immediately, the atrioventricular node triggers an impulse that causes both ventricles to contract.
It is open to allow the blood to flow into the left ventricle.
The structure of the right atrium is to send blood through an atrioventricular valve to the right ventricle and it's structure is mostly muscle and tissue.