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left_ventricle
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta
Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The heart weighed 510 gm. , and at the outflow tracts the left and right_ventricles measured 19 and 3 mm. , respectively . The myocardium of the posterior base of the left_ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area . Microscopically , sections from the posterior base of the left_ventricle of the heart showed several large areas of replacement of muscle by fibrous_tissue . Related terms |
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