Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a ventricle, in any sense; ventriculous: as, a ventricular cavity of the brain or heart; ventricular walls, lining, orifice; ventricular systole or diastole.
- Bellied or bellying; distended; ventricous. [Rare.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
ventricle orventriculus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain)
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Examples
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And if the heart goes too fast, particularly the more dangerous type of rapid heartbeat, which essentially stops the function of the heart, what we call a ventricular fibrillation -- if you don't correct it, you die.
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She presented minimally responsive with myoclonic twitching and in ventricular fibrillation.
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The arrhythmic type of heart attack, Patel said Tomlinson had suffered, would have occurred with a wobbling of the heart known as ventricular fibrillation.
Ian Tomlinson inquest: medical queries addressed to Freddy Patel 2011
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The result is that you are in a state doctors call ventricular fibrillation VF.
In Which You Don't Die In An Airport Matthew Herper 2011
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Dr. Wilkoff also said CRT devices are typically implanted with an additional feature called a defibrillator that delivers a shock to prevent a different electrical disturbance, such as a runaway heartbeat called ventricular fibrillation.
Scrutiny for Heart Devices Ron Winslow 2011
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This is called a ventricular septal defect or VSD.
Truncus Arteriosus 2009
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Dr. Wilkoff also said CRT devices are typically implanted with an additional feature called a defibrillator that delivers a shock to prevent a different electrical disturbance, such as a runaway heartbeat called ventricular fibrillation.
Scrutiny for Heart Devices Ron Winslow 2011
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The products, known as ventricular assist devices, help a damaged heart pump blood.
HeartWare Files Application for Heart-Pump Device Lauren Pollock 2010
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A blockage stops blood flow during a heart attack, as compared to cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating due to abnormal or irregular heart rhythms called ventricular arrhythmias.
The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack Ph.D. Dede Bonner 2009
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Some Mexican firms are hoping to join the booming life-sciences industry in the U.S. Medical device maker Innovamedica has a product in development called a ventricular assistive device--used to keep patients alive during heart surgery--that is undergoing animal trials at the Texas Heart Institute.
Mexico Pushes Into Software, Technology Mexico Meets Silicon Valley 2006
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