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ventricles

  1. The two lower chambers of the heart , which receive blood from the atria and pump it into the arteries . ( See circulatory system .)


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The heart was in standstill, hazy clots filling the ventricles.

Almost immediately the muscles of the ventricles relax, thus allowing blood to pass into the chambers within the ventricles.

Communication between auricles and ventricles is guarded by little flaps or valves.

This inflation of the ventricles brings their upper margins, formed by the false vocal cords, into contact.

Closure of the glottis by the inflation of the ventricles imposes no strain on the vocal cords.

His first section included those having a heart with two ventricles, two auricles, and warm and red blood, viz.

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