ventricle

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 vĕnʹtrĭk-əl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; One of two lower chambers of the heart.
    — The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.
  2. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.
    — the ventricle of memory
  3. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; A ventriculus; especially, a stomach. archaic
    — [On birds] Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles, and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) […]
  4. Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:; The womb. archaic

词形变化

ventricles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ventricular ventriculate ventriculo- ventricul-
相关词
interventricular intraventricular ventriculated ventriculus

词源

From late Middle English, from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventriculus.
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