The left ventricle is built stronger than the right ventricle, because it has to work harder. From Wordnik.com. [Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries (CCTGA)] Reference
A surgical procedure performed to repair heart defects in which only one ventricle is functional. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac terms and definitions] Reference
Approximately 3,000 children are born in the United States each year with severe heart defects in which one ventricle is too small or weak to pump effectively. From Wordnik.com. [Single Ventricle Care and Research Program] Reference
This connects through a narrow aperture with the third ventricle, which is rather long and thin. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Indeed, it would naturally run down into the ventricle, which is at that moment open to receive it. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Hames tells me there is weakness and some enlargement of the left ventricle, which is pretty much what I expected. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
Between the psalterium and the corpus callosum a horizontal cleft, the so-called ventricle of the fornix (ventricle of Verga), is sometimes found. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon] Reference
The aorta ends up being connected to the right ventricle, and the pulmonary artery is connected to the left ventricle, which is the opposite of how they are normally connected. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac terms and definitions] Reference
Sear the surface of the left ventricle with a red-hot iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
A cut Paul had made into the left ventricle exposed inch-thick muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Casualty] Reference
Each heart consists again of two compartments -- an auricle and a ventricle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Grasp the apex of the heart in the forceps and sear the surface of the right ventricle. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Chylific ventricle: the true stomach in which the chyle is prepared and digestion begins. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The aortic valve allows blood to flow from the heart's left ventricle to the brain and body. From Wordnik.com. [New Way to Treat Deadly Heart Problem] Reference
In like manner, the pulse in the right ventricle failing, the pulse in the pulmonary artery ceases also. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
But for a small fraction of the venous blood that entered the right ventricle another fate was reserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The left ventricle sends its charge into the aorta, and through this by the arteries to the body at large. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Plunge the open point of a capillary pipette through the seared area into the ventricle and fill with blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Yet it is denied that the right ventricle makes spirits, which is rather held to supply nourishment to the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Then the doctors delivered the scary news: the point of the needle had grazed her heart, nicking the right ventricle. From Wordnik.com. [What It Takes To Survive] Reference
The more severe the damage to your left ventricle, the greater your risk of sudden death from heart-rhythm abnormalities. From Wordnik.com. [BEST TREATMENTS: MANAGING HEART FAILURE] Reference
Having parted thus with its impurities, the venous blood ebbed back again from the right ventricle into the venous system. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
While our son's heart is far from perfect, the genius of the Boston team has allowed him the hope of a two-ventricle circulation. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
And first, in fishes, in which the heart consists of but a single ventricle, being devoid of lungs, the thing is sufficiently manifest. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The next changes which take place consist in the gradual subdivision, by means of septa, of the auricle and ventricle respectively into two cavities. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
A little later three chambers are developed, the auricle, ventricle, and aortic bulb; at this stage there is a resemblance to the heart of fish and amphibia. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Why should we not rather believe that the right took spirits from the left, than that the left obtained blood from the right ventricle through these foramina?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
And this, too, is the reason why the left ventricle occupies the middle of the heart, and has parietes three times thicker and stronger than those of the right. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Another union is that by the pulmonary artery, and is effected when that vessel divides into two branches after its escape from the right ventricle of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Sear the surface of the left ventricle with a red-hot iron and remove fluid blood from the heart by means of sterile pipettes (e. g., those shown in Fig. 13, c). From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
The author considers that the left ventricle is empty of blood -- as indeed it is after death -- and is the source of the innate heat and of the absolute intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
In like manner, when the right ventricle contracts and propels its charge of blood, the pulmonary artery is distended at the same time with the other arteries of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The right ventricle sends its charge into the lungs by the vessel which is called vena arteriosa, but which in structure and function, and all other respects, is an artery. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Baxter Healthcare's Novacor LVS, recently cleared for U.S. marketing, is a fist-size pump that can be implanted in a person's abdomen and attached to the heart's left ventricle. From Wordnik.com. [Fixing Failed Hearts] Reference
So that there is also reason to believe that when the heart contracts, the blood is regularly propelled by the canal or passage indicated from the right ventricle into the aorta. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The left ventricle I call that which is distinct in office, not in place from the other, that one, namely, which distributes the blood to the body at large, not to the lungs only. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
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