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ventricle

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The stomach.

A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.

Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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According to the manufacturer, this stimulation interrupts the tremor in the ventricle intermediate nucleus of the thalmus in the brain. Source: Internet

After their release into the capillaries of the third ventricle, the hypophysiotropic hormones travel through what is known as the hypothalamo-pituitary portal circulation. Source: Internet

A test for brain naturietic peptide can be used to evaluate for the presence of heart failure, and rises when there is increased demand on the left ventricle. Source: Internet

Blood flows nearly continuously back into the atrium, which acts as the receiving chamber, and from here through an opening into the left ventricle. Source: Internet

From here, blood flows into the atrium and then to the powerful muscular ventricle where the main pumping action will take place. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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