VENTRICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ventricle mean? 

• VENTRICLE (noun)
  The noun VENTRICLE has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: VENTRICLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTRICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "ventricle"):

cerebrospinal fluid; spinal fluid (clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ventricle"):

fourth ventricle (an irregular ventricle between the third ventricle and the central canal of the spinal cord)

third ventricle (a narrow ventricle in the midplane below the corpus callosum; communicates with the fourth ventricle via the Sylvian aqueduct)

lateral ventricle (either of two horseshoe-shaped ventricles one in each cerebral hemisphere; they communicate with the third ventricle via the foramen of Monro)

Holonyms ("ventricle" is a part of...):

brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)

Derivation:

ventricular (of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

heart ventricle; ventricle

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

chamber (an enclosed volume in the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ventricle"):

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

right ventricle (the chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk)

Derivation:

ventricular (of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain))

 Context examples 

A thin membrane that lines the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the SPINAL CORD.

(Murine Ependyma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A rare genetic disorder characterized by cardiomyopathy affecting the right ventricle.

(Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

The rhythm disturbance originates above the ventricles.

(Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A channel that connects the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

(Aqueduct of Sylvius, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of pathologic Q waves in leads V1 through V4, which is suggestive of myocardial infarction of the anteroseptal wall of the left ventricle.

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

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

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

An electrocardiographic finding of delayed or blocked cardiac electrical impulse conduction from the atria to the ventricles at the level of the atrioventricular node.

(Atrioventricular Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

A bundle of specialized heart muscle fibers that conducts impulses from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles.

(Atrioventricular Bundle, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital defect where the valve (mitral) which connects the two chambers on the left side of the heart (atrium and ventricle) is closed off.

(Mitral Valve Atresia, NICHD)

The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart.

(Mitral Valve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)