| LVAS | left ventricular assist system |
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| RA | radioactive; ragocyte; ragweed antigen; rapidly adapting [receptors]; reactive arthritis; reciprocal... |
| RH | radiant heat; radiation hybrid; radiological health; reactive hyperemia; recurrent herpes; regulator... |
| RS | radioscaphoid; random sample; rating schedule; Raynaud syndrome; recipient's serum; rectal sinus; re... |
| RUL | right upper eyelid; right upper lateral; right upper limb; right upper lobe |
| ventricular | <anatomy> Pertaining to a ventricle. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| ventricular aberration | Abnormal intraventricular conduction of a supraventricular beat, especially where surrounding beats are normally conducted. Synonym: ventricular aberration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular afterload | Formerly, the arterial pressure or some other measure of the force that a ventricle must overcome while it contracts during ejection, contributed to by aortic or pulmonic artery impedance, peripheral vascular resistance, and mass and viscosity of blood; now, more rigorously expressed in terms of the wall stress, i.e., the tension per unit cross-sectional area in the ventricular muscle fibres (calculated by an expansion of Laplace's law utilizing pressure, internal radius, and wall thickness) that is required to produce the intracavitary pressure required during ejection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular aneurysm | Aneurysm of the ventricular portion of the membranous septum, an aneurysm that bulges toward the right in systole, often consisting of the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve. Synonym: cardiac aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular arrhythmia | <cardiology> A cardiac arrhythmia which originates from within the ventricles. Isolated ventricular contractions are referred to as premature ventricular contractions. Frequent premature ventricular contractions can be potentially unstable and can degrade to a more serious rhythm or cardiac arrest. (12 Jan 1998) |
| ventricular arrhythmias | Abnormal rapid heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that originate in the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles). Ventricular arrhythmias include ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Both are life threatening arrhythmias most commonly associated with heart attacks or scarring of the heart muscle from previous heart attack. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ventricular arteries | Branches of the right and left coronary arteries distributed to the muscle of the ventricles. Synonym: arteriae ventriculares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular band of larynx | One of the pair of folds of mucous membrane stretching across the laryngeal cavity from the angle of the thyroid cartilage to the arytenoid cartilage; they enclose a space called the rima vestibuli or false glottis. Synonym: plica vestibularis, false vocal cord, plica ventricularis, ventricular band of larynx, ventricular fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular bigeminy | Paired ventricular beats, the common form consisting of ventricular extrasystoles coupled to sinus beats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular bradycardia | Slowness of ventricular rate, usually implying the presence of atrioventricular block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular capture | Capture of the ventricle(s) by an impulse arising in the atria or A-V junction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular complex | The continuous QRST waves of each beat in the electrocardiogram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular conduction | Conduction of the cardiac impulse through the ventricular myocardium, represented by the QRS complex in the electrocardiogram. H-R conduction time is from the onset of the first high frequency component of the His bundle electrogram to the onset of the QRS complex of the surface electrocardiogram (normally 43 ± 12 msec); H-V conduction time is from the onset of the first high frequency component of the His bundle electrogram to the onset of the ventricular electrogram (normally approximates the H-R interval but may be a little shorter). Synonym: ventricular conduction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular diastole | Period of relaxation and repolarization of the ventricular muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventricular diverticulum | A congenital outpouching of the right or left ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |