interventricular
Adjective
Meaning
Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.
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Examples
Galen believed that the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right by passing through 'pores' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart.
One of the best known examples of Vesalius' overturning of Galenism was his demonstration that the interventricular septum of the heart was not permeable, as Galen had taught (Nat Fac III xv).
The deep branches of the coronary arteries found with in the heart tissue are small and supply the interventricular and right atrioventricular valve with blood nutrients for which to carry out their processes.
The interventricular septum is much thicker than the interatrial septum, since the ventricles need to generate greater pressure when they contract.