How to Use ventricle in a Sentence

ventricle

noun
Definition of ventriclenext
  • In the spring of 2011, the wall of the ventricle had grown so thick that the chamber was unable to hold enough blood.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Most of the cardioids are a lot like the heart’s largest chamber, the left ventricle.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • Surgeons attach a pump to the left ventricle of the heart, and blood flows from there into the pump.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2010
  • One wire rests near the sinoatrial node, and the second in one of the heart’s ventricles.
    — Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The thinner right ventricle pumps blood a short distance to the lungs.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The tumor, which remains but hasn't grown, sits at the top of a brain ventricle.
    — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
  • The tumor took up most of the left ventricle of Oliver’s plum-sized heart.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The VAD is attached to one or both of the ventricles, the heart’s pumping chambers.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2016
  • If the pub was the beating heart of the community, this is the new left ventricle.
    — Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
  • One of the stab wounds went into part of his lung and the right ventricle, according to the report.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 1 May 2023
  • When the heart squeezed with each beat, the mass would be pushed toward the valve that separates the atrium from the ventricle.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • What’s more, one area in the left ventricle pumps in a balloon pattern.
    — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Without a valve connecting the right ventricle to the lungs, not enough blood reaches the lungs.
    — Mj Lee and Tami Luhby, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Lecomte’s left ventricle, which is the biggest chamber of the heart, shrunk by about 20 to 25 percent during the study.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The left ventricle is the biggest and strongest chamber of the heart, pumping blood into the aorta and through the body.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The atria are smaller chambers at the top of the heart, and their contraction fills the larger ventricles with blood.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
  • When the left atrium--the chamber above the ventricle, which receives the blood from the lungs--contracts, the sails are pushed apart and blood flows between them.
    — Mehmet Oz, Esquire, 30 Oct. 2006
  • At this stage, the heart has only one chamber, which will become the left ventricle of the mature heart.
    — Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 20 May 2021
  • Your heart has four chambers, two atria and two ventricles.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Your right atrium takes in blood from your body and sends it to the right ventricle, where it gets oxygenated in your lungs.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The red cantilevered stairways look like the ventricles of a heart coursing with glitter blood.
    — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
  • In that form, blood flow is partially blocked from the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, to the aorta.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The aortic valve is the structure in between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta, the largest blood vessel that provides the blood supply to the entire body.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
  • For the new study, the researchers wanted to find out what factors affected the ventricles’ size.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The mechanical pump connects to her heart and does what the ventricle is supposed to do: pump blood.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
  • From there, blood that’s now rich in oxygen travels from your lungs to the left atrium and then the left ventricle, which delivers the blood to the aorta.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022
  • And then goes into the ventricles, and then the ventricles contract.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Hers was all backed up, and her ventricles were really large.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2019
  • The researchers tackled the left side first by focusing on the mitral valve, which controls the flow between the left atrium and ventricle (the heart’s upper and lower chambers).
    — Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Within fractions of a second, the wire in the ventricle should detect that electrical activity.
    — Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023

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