figure-of-eight model

figure-of-eight model
in cardiology, a variation of the leading circle model of reentry in which the interface of refractory tissue is a curved barrier, with the result that the wavefronts split, proceed around each edge of the arc, and return centrally to describe a figure eight configuration.

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