ventricles
[ (ven-tri-kuhlz) ]
The two lower chambers of the heart, which receive blood from the atria and pump it into the arteries. (See circulatory system.)
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The heart was in standstill, hazy clots filling the ventricles.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlmost immediately the muscles of the ventricles relax, thus allowing blood to pass into the chambers within the ventricles.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterCommunication between auricles and ventricles is guarded by little flaps or valves.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThis inflation of the ventricles brings their upper margins, formed by the false vocal cords, into contact.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. TaylorClosure of the glottis by the inflation of the ventricles imposes no strain on the vocal cords.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. Taylor
His first section included those having a heart with two ventricles, two auricles, and warm and red blood, viz.
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