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Webster 1913 Edition
Ventricle
Ven′tri-cle
,Noun.
[L.
ventriculus
the stomach, a ventricle, dim. of venter
the belly: cf. F. ventricule
. See Ventral
.] 1.
(Anat.)
A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See
Heart
. ☞ The principal ventricles of the brain are the fourth in the medulla, the third in the midbrain, the first and second, or lateral, ventricles in the cerebral hemispheres, all of which are connected with each other, and the fifth, or pseudocœle, situated between the hemispheres, in front of, or above, the fornix, and entirely disconnected with the other cavities. See
Brain
, and Cœlia
. 2.
The stomach.
[Obs.]
Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my
ventricle
digests what is in it. Sir M. Hale.
3.
Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
These [ideas] are begot on the
ventricle
of memory. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Ventricle
VEN'TRICLE
,Noun.
In a general sense, a small cavity in an animal body. It is applied to the stomach. It is also applied to two cavities of the heart, which propel the blood into the arteries. The word is also applied to cavities in different parts of the brain.
Definition 2024
ventricle
ventricle
English
Noun
ventricle (plural ventricles)
- (anatomy, zoology) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
- (anatomy) One of two lower chambers of the heart.
- (anatomy) One of four cavities in the brain.
- (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;) […] "
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 72:
- (archaic) The womb.
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Translations
one of two lower chambers of the heart
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one of the cavities of the brain
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