ventricle


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Synonyms for ventricle

a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries

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We report about a prenatal diagnosis of a huge CAF between the left coronary artery and the right ventricle, which was made by Doppler echocardiography at 22 weeks of gestation.
"This young patient underwent a critical heart reconstruction surgery to repair and reshape the left ventricle that got damaged during a heart attack.
It could promote growth and regeneration of that ventricle and recruit it back into the circulation, so that the patient has a chance to regain a normal two-ventricle circulation with improved quality of life and longevity, he said.
The aim of this work is to develop an artificial vision system that can perform the task of detecting left ventricle in images.
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealed enlargement of lateral ventricles and a well-circumscribed hyperdense mass on the roof of the third ventricle at the location of foramen of Monro (Figure 1).
On CT, they appear as round or oval shaped hyperdense lesions in the rostral aspect of the third ventricle; they may appear as isodense and hypodense lesions as well [1, 3].
On excising the left vocal cord polyp, pus appeared to be discharging from the left laryngeal ventricle (Figure 1).
The aorta begins at the top of the left ventricle, the heart's muscular pumping chamber.
Heart attacks can kill significant amount of myocardial tissue within the left ventricle, weakening it, and increasing ventricular wall tension if dilation occurs (via LaPlace's Law).
Why is the heart's left ventricle wall thicker than the right?
generally accepted clinical and instrumental indicators of right ventricular hypertrophy and/or dilatation of the cavities of the right ventricle and right atrium;
M2 PHARMA-July 31, 2019-Mezzion reports encouraging results from the FUEL udenafil trial in adolescents with single ventricle heart disease with Fontan procedure
Global Banking News-July 31, 2019-Mezzion reports encouraging results from the FUEL udenafil trial in adolescents with single ventricle heart disease with Fontan procedure