Heart Ventricles
| Medical Definition: |
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. |
| Guide Notes: |
NIM: Manual 21.51; /physiol: consider also VENTRICULAR FUNCTION & specifics; /radionuclide permitted but consider also RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; ventric hypertrophy = HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR or HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; false ventric tend |
| Also Called: |
Left Ventricle,Right Ventricle |
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