ventricles

Cultural  

1. The two lower chambers of the heart, which receive blood from the atria and pump it into the arteries. (See circulatory system.)

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Example Sentences

A convent girl with a creepy streak, Elizabeth sees beauty in biology, leaning over a corpse’s flayed back to appreciate the intricacy of its ventricles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

However, in nearly half of these patients, the extra help leads to an imbalance between the left and right ventricles, which can pose danger to the patient.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

And it might also lead to insights that could help parents and doctors treat babies with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder caused by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in ventricles deep within the brain.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023

Chakraborty suspected the outsize cells help bulk up that part of the fly’s heart, the equivalent of the human heart’s muscular ventricles.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

My arms are atria and my legs are ventricles and I pump the blood all around the right way because there has to be something I can do.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine