- plural of ventricle.
ventricles
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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
The team also showcased the technology through a heart-like pump with integrated ventricles and artificial heart valves, as well as metamaterials that can be programmed to have non-linear material properties.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
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
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