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Ventricular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to a ventricle, in any sense; ventriculous: as, a ventricular cavity of the brain or heart; ventricular walls, lining, orifice; ventricular systole or diastole.

Bellied or bellying; distended; ventricous. [Rare.]

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain)

Word Usage

"And if the heart goes too fast, particularly the more dangerous type of rapid heartbeat, which essentially stops the function of the heart, what we call a ventricular fibrillation -- if you don't correct it, you die."

Cross Reference

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Form

ventricular septum ventricular fibrillation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bellied

Same Context

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