| ventricular tachycardia |
A rapid life-threatening rhythm originating from the lower chambers of the heart. The rapid rate prevents the heart from filling adequately with blood, and less blood is able to pump through the body.
Ãâó: www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/glossary/v...
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| ventricle |
L. ventriculus, from venter, belly, chamber, cavity. Ventricles of the brain were so-named because it was at one time fashionable to name parts of the brain for other parts of the body that they resembled.
Ãâó: www.vh.org/adult/provider/anatomy/MicroscopicAnato...
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| ventriculogram |
x-ray motion pictures of the ventricles showing contraction of the heart muscle.
Ãâó: www.vh.org/adult/patient/internalmedicine/cardiacc...
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| ventricular fibrillation |
rapid, irregular twitching of heart muscle which prevents coordinated contraction of heart.
Ãâó: www.uwo.ca/pathol/glossary.html
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| ventral |
Column of spinal cord white matter located between the emerging ventral roots and ventral median fissure.
Ãâó: www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/anatomy/neuro/...
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