Ventricle

The left ventricle of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the entire body through the aorta.

The right ventricle of the heart sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs for gas exchange.

Thick muscular walls allow each cardiac ventricle to generate enough pressure to move blood efficiently.

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

the ventricle of memory

[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;) […]