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Mitral :: Mitral (a.) Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart..

Aqueduct :: Aqueduct (n.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain..

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

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

Hydrocephalus :: Hydrocephalus (n.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously..

Reptilia :: Reptilia (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds..

Interventricular :: Interventricular (a.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart..

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

Ventricle :: Ventricle (n.) A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart..

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes..

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

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

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

Terma :: Terma (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain..

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

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

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

Ventricle :: Ventricle (n.) Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating..

Medicornu :: Medicornu (n.) The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

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

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