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the muscular brute that fires blood out, while atria just politely hand it over
means A ventricle is a hollow chamber in an organ — most famously one of the two lower pumping chambers of the heart, or one of the fluid-filled cavities deep in the brain.
from From the Latin ventriculus, a little diminutive of venter, 'belly' — so a ventricle is literally a 'little belly,' a small hollow stomach-like pouch tucked inside the body. The same venter gives us 'ventral.' Anatomists, fond of seeing bellies everywhere, applied the word both to the heart's pumping pockets and to the brain's inner cavities.
- power chamber
- left ventricle pumps blood to your entire body
- wall thickness
- left wall is triple the right's
- brain too
- four ventricles hold cerebrospinal fluid
- pressure
- can generate 120 mmHg per beat
- fish version
- fish hearts run on a single ventricle
left ventricle — pumps oxygenated blood to the entire body through the aorta in all mammals
right ventricle — pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs in all vertebrates
lateral ventricles brain — largest cerebrospinal fluid-filled cavities in the human brain, two per person