different between ventriculus vs ventricle

English

Etymology

From Latin ventriculus, diminutive of venter (“belly”). Doublet of ventricle.

Noun

ventriculus (plural ventriculi)

1. A digestive cavity or stomach.

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of venter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?en?tri.ku.lus/, [u??n??t???k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ven?tri.ku.lus/, [v?n??t??i?kulus]

Noun

ventriculus m (genitive ventricul?); second declension

1. belly
2. stomach
3. ventricle

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• proventriculus

Descendants

References

• ventriculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ventriculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ventriculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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.