Ventricle

//ˈvɛn.tɹɪk.əl// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; One of two lower chambers of the heart.

    "The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation."

  2. 2
    a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries wordnet
  3. 3
    Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.

    "the ventricle of memory"

  4. 4
    one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid wordnet
  5. 5
    Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; A ventriculus; especially, a stomach. archaic

    "[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;) […]"

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  1. 6
    Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; The womb. archaic

Etymology

From late Middle English, from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventriculus.

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