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Definition of Heart ventricle

1. Noun. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries.

Medical Definition of Heart ventricle

1. The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart Ventricle

Literary usage of Heart ventricle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases by Austin Flint (1859)
"LESIONS AFFECTING THE VALVES OF THE HEART. ventricle. If the contraction of this ventricle be feeble, from dilatation or weakness, the regurgitant current ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"A stimulus to the left side of the heart (ventricle) yields a curve like that seen when the right branch of the conducting bundle is cut, while one applied ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1876)
"If we suppose the several parts of the heart, ventricle, auricle, sinus venosus, &c., to be mere passive instruments receiving stimuli or impulses to ..."

4. Applied Physiology: Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton (1898)
"ventricle. beginning of the aorta is e artery- a pump called the heart. ventricle. The heart lies just to the f valve to keep blood from returning to the ..."

5. Hooker's New Physiology: Designed as a Text-book for Institutions of Learning by Worthington Hooker, Joseph Addison Sewall (1874)
"This valve permits the blood to pass from the auricle into the THE HEART. ventricle ; but when it attempts to pass back from the ventricle to the auricle, ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"No sooner, however, has the bloodstream, impelled by the contraction of the muscular walls of the heart's ventricle, passed into the great main artery (the ..."

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