Depolarization of one myocardial cell will likely result in
a. completion of the action potential in that cell before a new cell can accept an impulse.
b. quick depolarization and spread to all of the heart.
c. depolarization of only cells superior to the initial depolarization.
d. depolarization of only cells inferior to the initial depolarization.
B
The cardiac muscle is a functional syncytium in which depolarization started in any cardiac cell is quickly spread to all of the heart.
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