How to Use ventricle in a Sentence

ventricle

noun
  • The thinner right ventricle pumps blood a short distance to the lungs.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • What’s more, one area in the left ventricle pumps in a balloon pattern.
    — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Hers was all backed up, and her ventricles were really large.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 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
  • Most of the cardioids are a lot like the heart’s largest chamber, the left ventricle.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • Cerebrospinal fluid seeps from the ventricle walls and then moves.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The tumor took up most of the left ventricle of Oliver’s plum-sized heart.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • One wire rests near the sinoatrial node, and the second in one of the heart’s ventricles.
    — Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The pulmonary valve is between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery (the lung's main artery).
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • If the pub was the beating heart of the community, this is the new left ventricle.
    — Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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 mechanical device helps the left ventricle of the heart pump blood to the rest of the body.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • And as the team hypothesized, those who spent more time in space had larger ventricles.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The tricuspid valve, which allows blood flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • And then goes into the ventricles, and then the ventricles contract.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • 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
  • Over time, this can lead to enlargement of the heart's left ventricle, which is the heart chamber that pushes blood through to the body.
    — Anisha Shah, Verywell Health, 1 Jan. 2025
  • For the new study, the researchers wanted to find out what factors affected the ventricles’ size.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The wall between the ventricles, known as the septum, plays a uniquely important role in blood flow through the heart.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In the species with the largest genome, the ventricle resembled an empty bag made of a flimsy film of muscle, as little as one cell thick.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • These soft robotic parts contract to copy the movement of the ventricle and the natural motion of the mitral valve.
    — Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In a normal heart, the pulmonary artery carries unoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs to get oxygen.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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

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