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Ventricle

noun

One of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid.

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries. Synonym: heart ventricle.

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"Ventricle" Quotes from Famous Books

... pellicles which, like so many small valves, open and shut the four orifices that are in these two cavities, viz., three at the entrance of the hollow veins where they are disposed in such a manner as by no means to prevent the blood which it contains from flowing into the right ventricle of the heart, and yet exactly to prevent its flowing out; three at the entrance to the arterial vein, which, arranged in a manner exactly the opposite of the former, readily permit the blood contained in this cavity to ...

— A Discourse on Method • Rene Descartes

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