Congenital Abnormality
common ventricle
com·mon ven·tri·cle
Subclass of:
Congenital Heart Defects
Definitions related to common ventricle:
  • (single ventricle) The presence of only one working lower chamber in the heart, usually with a virtual absence of the ventricular septum and usually present in conjunction with double inlet left or right ventricle.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • (univentricular heart) Rare congenital heart malformation with a single ventricle (HEART VENTRICLES) instead of the usual two.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (common ventricle disorder) An umbrella term used to describe several very different complex congenital heart defects that share the same problem: the heart has only one functional ventricle (anatomically right or left or indeterminate) supplying the systemic circulation. These defects include tricuspid atresia, hypoplastic left or right heart syndrome, double outlet right ventricle, double inlet left ventricle, and other forms of single ventricle defects.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Because hypoplastic left heart syndrome (eg, aortic atresia with mitral hypoplasia), pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, and tricuspid atresia are discussed in other articles, this article considers the term
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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