Anatomy
heart ventricle
heart ven·tri·cle [ hahrt ven-tri-kuhl ]
Subclass of:
Heart
Definitions related to heart ventricle:
  • (heart, ventricle) The larger chamber(s) of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pushes it out of the heart into the peripheral circulation and/or the lungs.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Lower right and left chambers of the mammalian heart; the right ventricle pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (cardiac ventricle) Cardiac chamber which consists of a wall that surrounds the cavity of a ventricle.
    Foundational Model of Anatomy
    University of Washington, 2017
  • (cardiac ventricle) One of the two lower chambers of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps blood to the arteries.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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