How to Use ventricular in a Sentence

ventricular

adjective

• And the ventricular septal defect is a hole in the heart.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• The sound waves pass through the muscle walls and provide a gauge of left ventricular mass (LVM).
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2016
• Madelyn was born with a ventricular septal defect, a hole in her heart.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Ejection fraction is a measurement of how well the left ventricular compartment of the heart can squeeze.
  — Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
• The doctors commanded him to stop working, and he was put on a left ventricular assist device to keep his heart beating.
  — Valerie June, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2017
• Yet the patients still were having thousands of episodes of ventricular tachycardia, during which a heart may beat 200 times a minute as blood pressure plummets.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• But then the pains started up again, and doctors found arrhythmias, or irregular rhythms, in the atrial and ventricular areas of his heart.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• One of the pivotal moments came shortly after his birth: doctors telling Nik and his wife, Patty, that Chris had Down syndrome and ventricular septal defect — a hole in his heart.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2021
• This is not the first time an association has been found between Covid-19 and right ventricular enlargement.
  — Michael Nedelman and Mark Lieber, CNN, 18 May 2020
• To keep her alive until Dr. Gray could perform the four-hour procedure, doctors used a ventricular-assist device to help her heart keep beating until a donor heart came available.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2017
• Her heart went into ventricular tachycardia, which is a condition in which the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) beat very quickly.
  — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• The cause was ventricular fibrillation, said his wife, Debra Wood.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• Oliver had two episodes of ventricular tachycardia within his first 48 hours.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• Welch went on to win the Ironman Australia race in 1998, then retired from the sport two years later to care for her husband, who was diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia, which required nine open-heart surgeries.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• In the Brazil study, two of the 37 patients who were getting high doses of chloroquine developed ventricular tachycardia, a dangerous heart arrhythmia that led to their deaths.
  — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Given that the ventricles power the blood through the body, ventricular fibrillation is fatal.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• Langston, 59, suffered a ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm that can be triggered by a heart attack.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• Gottfried died of recurrent ventricular tachycardia, an abnormal rhythm in the lower chambers of the heart.
  — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2022
• And the giraffe has another trick to avoid heart failure: The electrical rhythm of its heart differs from that of other mammals so that the ventricular-filling phase of the heartbeat is extended, Natterson-Horowitz found.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2021
• Avery was born with multiple ventricular septal defects, which means there are numerous holes in the wall that separate the two lower chambers of her heart, Fox News reports.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2018
• And ventricular tachycardias can be caused by other health problems that doctors would be able to diagnose and identify.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• Elvis' cause of death, reported by The Washington Post at the time, was due to cardiac arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, which means the heart beats abnormally then stops.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
• One participant experienced premature ventricular contractions -- extra beats in one chamber of the heart -- at the outset of the study and during the study.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 May 2018
• Engineers at the University of Wisconsin tasered anesthetized pigs and found that the risk of ventricular fibrillation is very low.
  — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2007
• Then there’s the other kind of irregular heartbeat: Marcus: Premature ventricular contractions are early beats that arise from the lower chambers of the heart.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2023
• The cause of death was recurrent ventricular tachycardia, a heart condition, his longtime friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz announced.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
• Wasfy described seeing ventricular septal defects in the intensive care unit this summer, which can occur when a heart attack goes untreated, resulting in a hole in the heart.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
• Overall, at least two patients in the high-dose group developed ventricular tachycardia, a type of arrhythmia that can lead to sudden cardiac death and none in the low-dose group developed the condition, according to the pre-print study's data.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Apr. 2020
• What Still Isn’t Known Currently, our technology is best first used for urgent heart conditions, including restarting the heart after surgery, heart attack and ventricular defibrillation.
  — Pengju Li, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2024
• Jake had arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a disease in which fatty fibrous tissue replaces normal heart muscle.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024