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Ventricular :: Ventricular (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

Intraventricular :: Intraventricular (a.) Within or between ventricles.

Thalamus :: Thalamus (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Hemisystole :: Hemisystole (n.) Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

Ventricle :: Ventricle (n.) The stomach.

Auricle :: Auricle (n.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart..

Procoele :: Procoele (n.) A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.

Brain :: Brain (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three seg

Postcornu :: Postcornu (n.) The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

Scutibranchiata :: Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Postcommissure :: Postcommissure (n.) A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.

Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar..

Medicommissure :: Medicommissure (n.) A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure.

Ependyma :: Ependyma (n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

Teretial :: Teretial (a.) Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes..

Pseudocoelia :: Pseudocoelia (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.

Fornix :: Fornix (n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain..

Neurocoele :: Neurocoele (n.) The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

Choroid :: Choroid (a.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball..

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