ventricle of the heart
Also known as cardiac ventricle, heart ventricle, heart ventricles, cardioventricle
chamber of the heart
Key facts
- Latin
- ventriculus cordis
- Mesh
- D006352
- Ta98
- A12.1.00.012
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
149,148 papers- Anatomy of the Functionally Univentricular Heart.World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery · 2018
- Invasive Hemodynamics of Pulmonary Disease and the Right Ventricle.Interventional cardiology clinics · 2017
- Evolution of the ventricles.Texas Heart Institute journal · 1999
- [Chronic cor pulmonale--a disease of the right or both ventricle(s) of the heart?].Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego · 1998
- Non-Uniform Bioaccumulation of Lead and Arsenic in Two Remote Regions of the Human Heart's Left Ventricle: A Post-Mortem Study.
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Article
A ventricle is one of two large chambers located toward the bottom of the heart that collect and expel blood towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs. The blood pumped by a ventricle is supplied by an atrium, an adjacent chamber in the upper heart that is smaller than a ventricle. Interventricular means between the ventricles (for example the interventricular septum), while intraventricular means within one ventricle (for example an intraventricular block).
In a four-chambered heart, such as that in humans, there are two ventricles that operate in a double circulatory system: the right ventricle pumps blood into the pulmonary circulation to the lungs, and the left ventricle pumps blood into the systemic circulation through the aorta.