LEFT VENTRICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does left ventricle mean? 

• LEFT VENTRICLE (noun)
  The noun LEFT VENTRICLE has 1 sense:

1. the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta

  Familiarity information: LEFT VENTRICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEFT VENTRICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("left ventricle" is a kind of...):

heart ventricle; ventricle (a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries)

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves in leads V1 to V6, I and aVL, which is suggestive of myocardial infarction involving the anterior and anterolateral walls of the left ventricle.

(Extensive Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves in leads I and aVL, which is suggestive of myocardial infarction of the high lateral wall of the left ventricle.

(High Lateral Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves with accompanying ST elevation in leads V3 and V4, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.

(Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A rare congenital cardiovascular abnormality in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle.

(Discordant Ventriculoarterial Connection, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves with accompanying ST elevation in leads V3 through V6, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle.

(Acute Anterolateral Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A surgical procedure in which a pacemaker is implanted to re-coordinate the electrical activity of the right and left ventricles in patients with heart failure.

(Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Thus, there is approximately equal contribution to the inferior surface of the left ventricle from both the left circumflex and right coronary arteries.

(Co-Dominant Artery, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary vein and pumps blood into the left ventricle.

(Cardiac Atrium, NCI Thesaurus)

A implantable cardiac pacemaker with an additional third lead placed in the left ventricle that is designed to keep the contractions of the ventricles synchronized with each other.

(Biventricular Pacemaker, NCI Thesaurus)

The portion of the aorta that emerges from the left ventricle and precedes the aortic arch.

(Ascending Aorta, NCI Thesaurus)