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Definition of Right ventricle
1. Noun. The chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk.
Medical Definition of Right ventricle
1. The muscular chamber of the heart which accepts blood from the right atrium and pumps it through the pulmonary artery into the lungs. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Ventricle
Literary usage of Right 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)
"The right ventricle is triangular in form, and extends from the right auricle to
near the apex of the heart. Its anterior or upper surface is rounded and ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1897)
"right ventricle (upper tracing) shows very marked periodic variations. ...
from the right ventricle in the irregular stage of strophanthin. Fig. 12. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The right chambers are the right auricle and right ventricle. The left chambers
are the left auricle and left ventricle. All these chambers are lined by a ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The right chambers are the right auricle and right ventricle. The left chambers
are the left auricle and left ventricle. All these chambers are lined by a ..."
5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"38, where the upper curve is a tracing taken from the right auricle, and the
lower curve from the right ventricle of the horse, both curves being taken ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"RV right ventricle. ALV Left ventricle of small organ (accessory left ventricle).
ARV Accessory right ventricle. RA and ARA Fused right auricles of both ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"And this was the basis of their classification of the vessels, for they held all
those vessels which, in this sense, open into the right ventricle to be ..."
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