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BNC: 34732 COCA: 23910

ventricle

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ventricle /ˈvɛntrəkəl/ noun
plural ventricles
ventricle
/ˈvɛntrəkəl/
noun
plural ventricles
Learner's definition of VENTRICLE
[count] technical
: one of two sections of the heart that pump blood out to the body心室 compare atrium
BNC: 34732 COCA: 23910

ventricle

noun

ven·​tri·​cle ˈven-tri-kəl How to pronounce ventricle (audio)
: a cavity of a bodily part or organ: such as
a
: a chamber of the heart which receives blood from a corresponding atrium and from which blood is forced into the arteries see heart illustration
b
: any of a system of communicating cavities in the brain that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord see brain illustration

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web When the heart squeezed with each beat, the mass would be pushed toward the valve that separates the atrium from the ventricle. New York Times, 13 July 2022 After the subject exercised, the scientists showed that the left ventricle of the heart expanded and the blood-flow rate in the carotid artery increased. Wired, 29 July 2022 Breder was born with Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, which means that he was born without a right ventricle, for which there is no cure. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 June 2022 Imaging showed that his heart was still clearing out most of the volume of the ventricles with each beat, but the total volume had shrunk as the walls of the ventricle thickened. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 June 2022 Images showed the left ventricle of each of their hearts -- which is the main pumping chamber -- had ballooned into a strange shape oddly reminiscent of a takotsubo, a pot used by Japanese fishermen to trap octopus. Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022 Morales added that doctors were able to do an additional – and relatively newly developed – procedure, called an LV exclusion, which excluded Sammy’s left ventricle during Sammy’s first open-heart surgery after he was born. Fox News, 29 Apr. 2022 In that form, blood flow is partially blocked from the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, to the aorta. Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022 Your right atrium takes in blood from your body and sends it to the right ventricle, where it gets oxygenated in your lungs. Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, borrowed from Latin ventriculus "belly, stomach, cavity in an organ," from ventr-, venter "belly, womb" + -culus, diminutive suffix (variant of -ulus -ule with nouns of the 3rd, 4th and 5th declensions) — more at venter

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ventricle was in the 14th century
BNC: 34732 COCA: 23910

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