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Purkinje Fibre

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How do you pronounce Purkinje?

How does one pronounce 'Purkinje'?

My biology teachers always pronounced it 'purk-ine', as do the electrophysiologists I work with, so I always assumed that was the standard prnounciation.

However following a disagreement with a friend on the topic last night, we looked it up on wikipedia, and then in merriam-webster and somewhere else, and they all said either 'purk-inyee' or 'purk-injee'.

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Purk-ine

purk-injee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Evangelista_Purkyn%C4%9B

I say Purkin yee.

purkinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngee
:smile:

per-kin-gee

I say per-kin-gee

I learnt it as pur-kin-jee.

Reply 9

icapturethecastle

purr-kine

heard it pronounced purr-kin-jee before :giggle:

Reply 10

7589200

its clearly pur kin jee

purkinjee

Seems like it can be said both ways.
I learnt it as per-kin-gee though.

pur-kin-jee

I thought it used to be Purkinje and they changed it to Purkyne?

Reply 15

Jennybean

All my lecturers say "pur-kin-jee", and so did my biology teachers.

Reply 16

FTC199

As a medical student who had never heard of this before medical school (not covered in the scottish system), it is pronouced purk-in-jee

i get this from all the consultants etc. that have given us lectures including it

Reply 17

linkdapink

We had a guest lecturer from the physiological society today and he pronounced it purk-in-jee. Though it is a name, so find someone called purkinje and ask them (which would be very cool in my opinion)