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Einthoven's Triangle. It was given by Willem Einthoven. It is a formation of 3 limb leads namely aVR, aVL and aVF which are used in electrocardiagraphy which. Besides coining the actual term "electrocardiogram" and in turn "ECG," Willem Einthoven also established the general principal of ECG as we. Einthoven triangle diagram into the box, on top of the support- ing blocks. The alligator clips for each voltmeter are connected to the electrodes on the vertices of the triangle, representing the leads of the ECG machine. The space in the box below the acrylic board is filled with a 0.5 mM saline (NaCl) solution so The spatial organization of these leads forms a triangle in the chest (Einthoven's triangle) which is presented in Figure 18, panel B. According to Kirchhoff's law, the sum of all currents in a closed circuit must be zero. Since Einthoven's triangle can be viewed as a circuit, the same rule should apply to it. Thus emerges Einthoven...