ventricle

English

Etymology

From French ventricule, from Latin ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: vĕnʹtrĭ-kəl, IPA: /ˈvɛntrɪkəl/, X-SAMPA: /"vEntrIk@l/

Noun

Wikipedia ventricle (plural ventricles)

1. (anatomy, zoology) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
2. (anatomy) One of two lower chambers of the heart.
3. (anatomy) One of four cavities in the brain.
4. (archaic, anatomy, zoology) The stomach.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 72:

     [On birds] "Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles, and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) […] "

5. (archaic) The womb.

Related terms

• interventricular
• intraventricular
• ventricular
• ventriculus

Translations

one of two lower chambers of the heart

• Albanian: barkushe (sq) f
• Armenian: փորոք (hy) (pʿorokʿ)
• Czech: komora (cs) f
• Danish: hjertekammer (da), ventrikel (da)
• Dutch: hartkamer (nl) f, ventrikel (nl) n
• Finnish: kammio (fi)

• Hebrew: חדר (he) (heder) m
• Italian: ventricolo (it) m
• Polish: komora (pl) f
• Russian: желудочек (ru) (želudoček)
• Spanish: ventrículo (es) m

See also

• atrium

External links

• ventricle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ventricle in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911