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Ventricle

noun
1.
One of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid.
2.
A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries.  Synonym: heart ventricle.



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"Ventricle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mechanical Substitution for the Left Ventricle in Man," pp. 642-644, and "Pulmonary Volvuloplasty under Direct Vision using the Mechanical Heart for a Complete Bypass of the Right Heart in a Patient with Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis," ...
— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
... surface of the body, and consequent distention of the superficial blood-vessels—not in any positive disorganization of the animal system, as in the case of difficulty in breathing, where the atmospheric density is chemically insufficient for the due renovation of blood in a ventricle of the heart. Unless for default of this renovation, I could see no reason, therefore, why life could not be sustained even in a vacuum; for the expansion and compression of chest, commonly called breathing, is action purely muscular, and the cause, not the effect, of respiration. In a word, I ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... very strange thing, which was this: a soldier in my presence gave one of his fellows a blow on the head with a halbard, penetrating to the left ventricle of the brain; yet the man did not fall to the ground. He that struck him said he heard that he had cheated at dice, and he had drawn a large sum of money from him, and was accustomed to cheat. They called me to dress him; which I did, as it were for the last ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various


Words linked to "Ventricle" :   encephalon, ventricular, cavum, cerebrospinal fluid, cavity, spinal fluid, chamber, brain, bodily cavity


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