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How to use ventricle in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Ventricle means one of two lower chambers of the heart. Example: “The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.”

Examples of ventricle by meaning

nounOne of two lower chambers of the heart.

  • The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 47

More sentences with ventricle

  • With each beat, your heart's left ventricle pumps blood into your arteries, which are all different sizes.2026, Ginny Graves, “The Most Important Health Metric You're Not Tracking”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 19. From the entry beat
  • Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers.1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5. From the entry overloop
  • From each of the two ventricles arises a great artery through which the blood is distributed.1922, Charles Singer, The Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood, page 6. From the entry great artery
  • For EVD placement in surgical environment, the catheter is introduced through a precoronal burr hole into the ventricle.2015 November 11, “From the Skin to the Brain: Pathophysiology of Colonization and Infection of External Ventricular Drain, a Prospective…. From the entry precoronal
  • Heart contractions are usually recorded with a Cushny myocardiograph sewn to the wall of the left ventricle and attached to a simple quasi-isometric lever system.2013, D.R. Laurence, A.L. Bacharach, Evaluation of Drug Activities: Pharmacometrics, page 388. From the entry myocardiograph
  • An Immersed Boundary fluid-structure interaction model is developed to investigate the dynamic behaviour of a prosthetic chorded mitral valve (MV) inside the left ventricle (LV).2012, “University of Glasgow: Effects of flow vortex on a chorded mitral valve in the left ventricle”, in Advances in Bioengineering…. From the entry chorded
  • The taenia is actually a continuation of the ependyma that covers the ventricular cavity over the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle.2006, Hung Tzu Wen, Antônio C. M. Mussi, Albert L. Rhoton Jr, Evandro de Oliveira, Helder Tedeschi, “Chapter 41: Surgical Approaches to…. From the entry taenia
  • The atrioventricular valves are prevented from turning inside out by strands of connective tissue, which run from their underside to the walls of the ventricle.2002, “Applied Physiology A”, in Beryl Stretch, editor, BTEC National Health Studies, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Heinemann Educational…. From the entry heartstrings
  • Everything seemed contingent on this arrangement: the clowder under the sill, the kindle under the bed, the ventricle next to the sleeping child slowly repairing itself.2008, Carole Maso, edited by Bradford Morrow, Fifty Contemporary Writers, Conjunctions, From Mother & Child. From the entry kindle
  • Radiopaque markers implanted in the left ventricle allow one to follow the motion of specific elements of myocardium and compute a measure of relative left ventricular volume, called eigenvolume.1988, Excerpta medica. Section 14. Radiology - Volume 60, page 81. From the entry eigenvolume
  • This fluid passes through the main iters which connect the various ventricles and filters through the thin membranes of the brain and cord, equalizing the pressure at all points.1916, Mayo Clinic, Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation, page 869. From the entry iter

Meaning of ventricle

  1. noun One of two lower chambers of the heart.
  2. noun One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.
  3. noun A ventriculus; especially, a stomach.

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Questions about ventricle in a sentence

How do you use ventricle in a sentence?
Ventricle is used as a noun. For example: “The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.”
What is a short sentence with ventricle?
“The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.”
What does ventricle mean?
Ventricle means one of two lower chambers of the heart.

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