Ventricle

Definitions

1. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
2. One of two lower chambers of the heart.
3. One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.
4. A ventriculus; especially, a stomach.
   archaic
5. The womb.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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;) […]”

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