How to Use ventricle in a Sentence

ventricle

noun

• In the spring of 2011, the wall of the ventricle had grown so thick that the chamber was unable to hold enough blood.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Most of the cardioids are a lot like the heart’s largest chamber, the left ventricle.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
• The pulmonary valve is between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery (the lung's main artery).
  — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
• Surgeons attach a pump to the left ventricle of the heart, and blood flows from there into the pump.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2010
• One wire rests near the sinoatrial node, and the second in one of the heart’s ventricles.
  — Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• The thinner right ventricle pumps blood a short distance to the lungs.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• The tumor, which remains but hasn't grown, sits at the top of a brain ventricle.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
• The tumor took up most of the left ventricle of Oliver’s plum-sized heart.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• The VAD is attached to one or both of the ventricles, the heart’s pumping chambers.
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2016
• If the pub was the beating heart of the community, this is the new left ventricle.
  — Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
• One of the stab wounds went into part of his lung and the right ventricle, according to the report.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 1 May 2023
• When the heart squeezed with each beat, the mass would be pushed toward the valve that separates the atrium from the ventricle.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• What’s more, one area in the left ventricle pumps in a balloon pattern.
  — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
• Without a valve connecting the right ventricle to the lungs, not enough blood reaches the lungs.
  — Mj Lee and Tami Luhby, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017
• Lecomte’s left ventricle, which is the biggest chamber of the heart, shrunk by about 20 to 25 percent during the study.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• The left ventricle is the biggest and strongest chamber of the heart, pumping blood into the aorta and through the body.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• The atria are smaller chambers at the top of the heart, and their contraction fills the larger ventricles with blood.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• When the left atrium--the chamber above the ventricle, which receives the blood from the lungs--contracts, the sails are pushed apart and blood flows between them.
  — Mehmet Oz, Esquire, 30 Oct. 2006
• At this stage, the heart has only one chamber, which will become the left ventricle of the mature heart.
  — Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 20 May 2021
• Your heart has four chambers, two atria and two ventricles.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• Aortic Valve The aortic valve sits between the left ventricle (the heart's lower left chamber) and the aorta (the main artery in the heart).
  — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024
• Your right atrium takes in blood from your body and sends it to the right ventricle, where it gets oxygenated in your lungs.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022
• The red cantilevered stairways look like the ventricles of a heart coursing with glitter blood.
  — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
• In that form, blood flow is partially blocked from the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, to the aorta.
  — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• The aortic valve is the structure in between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta, the largest blood vessel that provides the blood supply to the entire body.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
• For the new study, the researchers wanted to find out what factors affected the ventricles’ size.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• This fluid circulates through the ventricles of the brain, the central canal of the spinal cord and the subarachnoid space surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
  — Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• This fluid circulates through the ventricles of the brain, the central canal of the spinal cord, and the subarachnoid space surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
  — Danielle Wilhour, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• The mechanical pump connects to her heart and does what the ventricle is supposed to do: pump blood.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
• From there, blood that’s now rich in oxygen travels from your lungs to the left atrium and then the left ventricle, which delivers the blood to the aorta.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024