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Definition of Left ventricle
1. Noun. The chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta.
Definition of Left ventricle
1. Noun. One of the four chambers of the heart of humans and other mammals, which receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it out through the aorta. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Left ventricle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Left Ventricle
Literary usage of Left ventricle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Those fibres which descended on the posterior surface of the heart enter the left
ventricle at the vortex, and, ascending, form the posterior part of the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"The volume and weight proportions are thus seen to be nearly uniform, except that
the wall of the left ventricle of the larger heart is proportionately ..."
3. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"wall of the left ventricle forwards till the base of a large papillary ...
The cavity of the left ventricle and the mitral valve, which guards the left ..."
4. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"The left ventricle forms a thick muscular tube, with its cavity nearly in the
centre of the cardiac mass; while the right ventricle has the appearance of a ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"Microscopically, in the left ventricle all the muscular fibres were broken up,
the lines of fracture going ... Primary Fragmentation of the left ventricle. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The blood from the left ventricle goes at once to all parts of the body, whence
it returns to the right auricle; it then falls into the right ventricle and ..."
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