different between ventricle vs atrioventricular

English

Etymology

From French ventricule, from Latin ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”). Doublet of ventriculus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n?tr?-k?l, IPA^(key): /?v?nt??k?l/

Noun

ventricle (plural ventricles)

1. (anatomy, zoology) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
   1. (anatomy) One of two lower chambers of the heart.
   2. (neuroanatomy, anatomy) One of four cavities in the brain.
   3. (archaic, anatomy, zoology) The stomach.
      • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 72:

        [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. (archaic) The womb.

Related terms

• interventricular
• intraventricular
• ventricular
• ventriculus

Translations

See also

• atrium

Further reading

• ventricle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ventricle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

atrio- +? ventricular

Adjective

atrioventricular (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, medicine) Of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart.

Synonyms

• AV (initialism)

Translations