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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



... thing of nought, to the' hideous sight Of the ninth chasm. A rundlet, that hath lost Its middle or side stave, gapes not so wide, As one I mark'd, torn from the chin throughout Down to the hinder passage: 'twixt the legs Dangling his entrails hung, the midriff lay Open to view, and wretched ventricle, That turns th' ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... back than the other. Their posterior development is so marked that anatomists have assigned to that part the character of a third lobe; it is peculiar to the genus Homo, and equally peculiar is the 'posterior horn of the lateral ventricle' and the 'hippocampus minor' which characterises the hind-lobe of each hemisphere. The superficial grey matter of the cerebrum, through the number and depth of its convolutions, attains its maximum of extent ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell
... one 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 time, knowing that he ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various


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


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