JIPMER Jipmer Medical Solved Paper-2009

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    In frog heart, there are cardiac muscles which consists of fibres called

    A) Purkinje fibres                 

    B) myonemes

    C) telodendria       

    D)        columnae carnae

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    The heart wall of frog composed of epicardium, myocardium and endocardium. The myocardium composed of branched and striated yet involuntary cardiac muscles which contracts and relax rhythmically at a fixed rate. The fibres of the self excitatory and conducting muscle of the heart are of three types-nodal fibres, transitional fibres and Purkinje fibres. In frog heart, a number of muscular ridges called columnae carnae projected from the wall of ventricle into its cavity, dividing the peripheral part of the cavity into a number of pockets.


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