ventricularadj.
/vɛnˈtrɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /vɛnˈtrɪkjələr/ Chiefly Anatomy and Pathology.
1.
a. Of or pertaining to the stomach; abdominal, gastral, ventral.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [adjective]
wamedc1420
stomached?1529
stomachal1582
stomachical1601
gastric1656
stomachic1656
monogastric1814
ventricular1822
gasteral1828
perigastric1852
gastro-duodenal1854
gastrophrenic1854
opisthogastric1857
ventric1869
intragastric1900
oesophagogastric1954
nasogastric1958
tummied1975
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 208 It is also said that the common garden rue..when eaten to excess, is succeeded by the same symptoms of ventricular pains.
1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 164 No one..ever listens to ventricular admonitions, but ‘greatly daring dines’ on, in defiance of dyspepsia.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 610 Louis XIV actually did wear it buttoned below the ventricular curve.
b. Distended in the middle; ventriculous.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > in the middle
ventriculous1802
ventricular1850
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict.
2.
a. Affecting a ventricle or ventricles (of the heart, brain, etc.).
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [adjective] > ventricle > affecting
ventricular1838
the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > ventricles
hippocampal1837
ventricular1888
procoelian1890
ventriculoperitoneal1913
ventriculoatrial1959
1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 79 Its [the heart's] point..strikes at each ventricular contraction, or systole, as it is called, against the wall of the chest.
1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 205 The ventricular systole may also be accompanied by two distinctly different sounds.
1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 298 Limited ventricular meningitis occurs especially in young children.
b. Of or pertaining to, forming part of, a ventricle.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [adjective] > ventricle
ventricular1840
1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (1842) 338 The Deep or Ventricular veins commence within the lateral ventricles by two vessels.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. p. lvi A complete separation of the ventricular part of the heart into two cavities.
1875 J. F. Payne Jones & Sieveking's Man. Pathol. Anat. ix. 244 The surface either of the plexus or the ventricular walls.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 109 So far as regards the heart and ventricular muscle.
3. Of the nature of a ventricle.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > depression or cavity
capsulary1615
vesiculara1682
capsular1727
follicular1743
alveolar1816
antral1820
celluliferous1822
fossiform1824
impressed1826
sacciform1836
vestibular1836
ventricular1841
vestibulary1843
saccular1861
tubero-cystic1879
scrobicular1888
tubulosaccularc1900
vacuolized1910
cisternal1920
lacunate1957
vesiculating1966
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxiii. 397 A single auricle that communicates with a strong ventricular cavity.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxix. 606 The heart..separated into two distinct sets of cavities, each composed of an auricle and of a strong ventricular chamber.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 115 In the simplest Calcispongiæ,..the pores open directly into the ventricular cavity.
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