Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, placed between ventricles, as those of the heart or brain: as, an interventricular opening in the heart.
- In entomology, coming between the chambers of the dorsal vessel or heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Between the ventricles.
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- adjective anatomy Located between the
ventricles of theheart
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Examples
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She went back to the heart and split it apart, exposing the interventricular septum and the endocardial wall.
Fatal Care Goldberg, Leonard 2001
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“Take a look at the superior aspect of the interventricular septum.”
Fatal Care Goldberg, Leonard 2001
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Hesitating not a moment, Ivan knew the answer: “the muscular interventricular septum.”
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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Baldwin23 studied a case of congenital heart disease with interventricular septal defect.
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The interauricular and interventricular septa, by gradual development from without inwards, at length meet and coalesce, thereby dividing the two cavities into four -- two auricles and two ventricles -- a condition proper to the Avian and Mammalian classes generally.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The heart may be cleft at its apex in the situation of the interventricular septum -- a condition natural to the
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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D = stomach. f = distributory veins passing from liver. g = vena cava. h = pores in interventricular septum. i = left auricle.
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The columns (columna fornicis; anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramen and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the gray substance in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the corpus mammillare.
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The anterior cornu (cornu anterius; anterior horn; precornu) (Fig. 736) passes forward and lateralward, with a slight inclination downward, from the interventricular foramen into the frontal lobe, curving around the anterior end of the caudate nucleus.
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It is supplied by the anterior and posterior choroidal arteries already described, The veins of the tela chorioidea are named the internal cerebral veins (venæ Galeni); they are two in number, and run backward between its layers, each being formed at the interventricular foramen by the union of the terminal vein with the choroidal vein.
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