Ventricle

Definitions: Ventricle

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.

Date "ventricle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ventricle \Ven"tri*cle\, noun. [Latin expression ventriculus the stomach, ventricle, diminutive of venter the belly: compare to the French expression ventricule. See Ventral.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Ventricle

Domain	Definitions
Health	One of the two pumping chambers of the heart. The right ventricle receives oxygen-poor blood from the right atrium and pumps it to the lungs through the pulmonary artery. The left ventricle receives oxygen-rich blood from the left atrium and pumps it to the body through the aorta. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Ventricle

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In anatomy, a ventricle is a part of the body filled with fluid.

For the pumping chambers of the heart, see ventricles of the heart
For the ventricles of the brain, see ventricular system

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ventricle."

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Synonym: Ventricle

Synonym: heart ventricle (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ventricle

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ventricle

English words defined with "ventricle": aorta, aortic valve, ascending aorta ♦ bicuspid valve, blood pressure ♦ Calcar, caudate nucleus, cor pulmonale, Corpus striatum ♦ Fallot's syndrome, Fallot's tetralogy, foramen of Monro, fourth ventricle ♦ heart ventricle, Hemisystole, hippocampus ♦ interventricular foramen ♦ lateral ventricle, left atrioventricular valve, left ventricle, Ligule ♦ Medicommissure, Medicornu, mitral valve, mitral valve prolapse, Monro's foramen ♦ Pineal gland, Postcommissure, Postcornu, posterior vein of the left ventricle, Praecommissure, Praecornu, Procoele, Pseudocoelia, pulmonary stenosis, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary valve ♦ right atrioventricular valve, right ventricle ♦ Scutibranchiata, section, systolic pressure ♦ Teretial, Terma, tetralogy of Fallot, Thalamocoele, third ventricle, tricuspid valve, truncus pulmonalis ♦ ventricular, ventricular aneurysm, ventricular septal defect. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ventricle": anterior choroid artery, anterior choroidal artery, aortic insufficiency, Aortic Valve Insufficiency, Arcuate Nucleus, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia, auriculo-ventricular ♦ Bundle-Branch Block ♦ calcar avis, Cardiac Volume, Catheterization, Swan-Ganz, Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms, Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts, Counterpulsation, Crisscross Heart ♦ Dorsomedial Hypothalamic Nucleus, Double Outlet Right Ventricle ♦ Ebstein's Anomaly, Eisenmenger Complex, Endomyocardial Fibrosis, Epithalamus ♦ Fontan Procedure ♦ Heart Bypass, Left, Heart Bypass, Right, Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular, Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular, hypothalamic sulcus of the third ventricle, Hypothalamus, Anterior ♦ Lateral Ventricles, lesser circulation, Locus Coeruleus ♦ Median Eminence, Midline Thalamic Nuclei, Mitral Valve Insufficiency ♦ Nucleus Accumbens ♦ Parasystole, Pre-Excitation Syndromes, Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency ♦ Radionuclide Ventriculography, right ventricular failure ♦ salivary centre, Skeletal Muscle Ventricle, Subcommissural Organ ♦ Tachycardia, Ventricular, Transposition of Great Vessels, Tricuspid Atresia, tricuspid insufficiency, Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency, Tuber Cinereum ♦ Ventricular Dysfunction, Left, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right, Ventricular Function, Left, Ventricular Function, Right, Ventricular Pressure, Ventricular Remodeling, Ventriculography, First-Pass, Ventriculostomy. (references)

Etymologies containing "ventricle": Coelia ♦ Proventriulus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ventricle

Domain	Title
Books	Double Inlet Ventricle (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Ventricle

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Left ventricle of heart has been opened to show mitral valve fibrin vegetations due to infection with Haemophilus parainfluenzae. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.		Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.
	Opened left ventricle of heart shows a thickened, dilated left ventricle with subendocardial fibrosis manifested as increased whiteness of endocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.		Gross pathology of mural thrombus, apex of ventricle of heart. Autopsy.Credit: CDC.
	A pacemaker to prevent heart block is being passed into the patient's right ventricle ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas..
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Familiar Quotations: Ventricle

Author	Quotation
William Shakespeare	These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Ventricle

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The left ventricle is the main pumping chamber in the heart. (references)
		To perform this task, the right ventricle enlarges and thickens. (references)
		Some patients do well by taking medicines that make the work of the right ventricle easier. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Ventricle

"Ventricle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ventricle" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	28	65,706

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ventricle

Expressions using "ventricle": Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms ♦ Double Outlet Right Ventricle ♦ Fourth Ventricle ♦ Heart Ventricle ♦ hypothalamic sulcus of the third ventricle ♦ lateral ventricle ♦ left ventricle ♦ posterior vein of the left ventricle ♦ right ventricle ♦ Skeletal Muscle Ventricle ♦ Third Ventricle. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ventricle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ventricle	25
brain ventricle	16
left ventricle	16
right ventricle	8
hypertrophy left ventricle	8
enlarged ventricle	8
third ventricle	7
enlarged left ventricle	7
heart ventricle	6
double outlet right ventricle	6
lateral ventricle	5
slit syndrome ventricle	5
single ventricle	5
brain enlarged ventricle	4
3rd brain ventricle	3
left heart ventricle	3
contraction premature ventricle	3
hernia ventricle	3
dilated left ventricle	3
hypoplastic left ventricle	2
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Modern Translations: Ventricle

Language		Translations for "ventricle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ventrikul, barkushe. (various references)

Arabic		‏بطين القلب. (various references)

Bulgarian		кухина (cavity, chamber, fossa, hole, hollow, lumen, pit, recess, vug), камера на сърцето. (various references)

Chinese		心室 (Ventricular). (various references)

Czech		ventrikl, srdeèní komora, mozková komora, dutina (cavity, follicle, hollow, sinus). (various references)

Danish		ventrikel, ventriculus, hjerneventrikel. (various references)

Dutch		ventrikel, ventriculus (stomach). (various references)

Farsi		حفره (Cavern, Cavity, Cell, Dale, Delve, Ditch, Hole, Lacuna, Pit, Pothole, Sinus, Socket), شکم (Abdomen, Belly, Bowel, Breadbasket, Bulge, Gorge, Gut, Kyte, Paunch, Tummy, Womb), بطن (Abdomen, Womb). (various references)

Finnish		aivokammio. (various references)

French		ventricule. (various references)

German		Ventrikel. (various references)

Greek		κόλποσ τησ καρδιάσ (atrium, auricle), κοιλία (belly, bilge). (various references)

Hebrew		ח�"ר �"לב. (various references)

Hungarian		testüreg. (various references)

Italian		ventricolo (stomach, utricle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心室 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"しつ (bedroom). (various references)

Korean		뇌실. (various references)

Manx		meadleen, gailley (appetite, belly, digestion, paunch; thrush, stomach, tripe, tummy). (various references)

Pig Latin		entriclevay

Portuguese		ventrículo. (various references)

Romanian		ventricul. (various references)

Russian		желудочек. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		komora (chamber, cylinder, train). (various references)

Spanish		ventrículo. (various references)

Swedish		ventrikel, vätskefyllt rum i hjärtan, magsäck (stomach), hjärtkammare. (various references)

Turkish		organ boşluğu, karıncık. (various references)

Ukranian		шлуночок, вентрикулярний. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Ventricle

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ventriculus. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Ventricle

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ventricle": ventricles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ventricle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entrical, entricle, venticle, ventile, ventrical, ventricule. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ventricle"

Words rhyming with "ventricle" (pronounced 'Ven"tri*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binnacle, Binocle, Bittacle, Calicle, Canticle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, Demicircle, Denticle, Diverticle, Encircle, Epicycle, Fernticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Immanacle, Incircle, Incle, Interclavicle, Isicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Nucle, Obstacle, Opercle, Orbicle, Ossicle, Panicle, Particle, Pedicle, Peduncle, Pellicle, Pendicle, Pentacle, Perpendicle, Piacle, Planticle, Postclavicle, Propugnacle, Proventricle, Racle, Radicle, receptacle, reticle, Ridicle, sanicle, Sarcle, Secle, Sectiuncle, semicircle, Sicle, silicle, socle, spectacle, Sphericle, spiracle, Spiricle, Subtectacle, Supraclavicle, Surcle, Sustentacle, tentacle, testicle, Thesicle, treacle, Triacle, tubercle, Tunicle, Unmanacle, utricle, Versicle, Verticle, Vesicle, Vibratiuncle, Zocle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ventricle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: vernicle.
	-2 letters: centile, cervine, enteric, enticer, lectern, licente, livener, recline, reticle, tiercel, veinlet.
	-3 letters: ceiler, center, centre, cerite, clever, client, crenel, cretin, entice, entire, envier, eviler, evince, invert, lectin, lentic, levier, lierne, liever, linter, recent, recite, relent, relict, reline, relive, retile, retine, revile, tenrec, tercel, tierce, triene, veiler, veiner, venire, venter, verite.
	-4 letters: citer, civet, cline, creel, elect, elint, elite, elver, enter, erect, ervil, event, evert, evict, evite, inert, inlet, inter, lever, levin, lieve, liner, liter, litre, liven, liver, livre, nerve, never, nicer, niece, nieve, niter, nitre, recti, reive, relet, relic, relit, rente, retie, revel, revet, riven, rivet, telic, terce, terne, tiler, treen, trice, trine, viler.
	-5 letters: ceil, celt, cent, cere, cete, cine, cire, cite, clit, erne, etic, even, ever, evil, leer, leet, lent, lice, lien, lier, line, lint, lire, lite, live, neve, nevi, nice, nite, reel, rein, rent, rete, rice, riel, rile, rite, rive, teel, teen, tele, tern, tier, tile, tine, tire, tirl, tree, veer, veil, vein, vent, vert, vice, vier, vile, vine, virl.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: cantilever, ventricles.
	+2 letters: cantilevers, convertible.
	+3 letters: cantilevered, conventicler, convertibles, unreflective, verticalness.
	+4 letters: cantilevering, conventiclers, convertiplane, countervailed, inconvertible, interactively, lucrativeness, ultraviolence.
	+5 letters: antireflective, conglomerative, conservatively, controvertible, convertiplanes, nonconvertible, overcentralize, reflectiveness, ultraviolences, verticalnesses.
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