ventriculusn.
/vɛnˈtrɪkjʊləs/ 1.
a. Anatomy and Zoology. = ventricle n. 3.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]
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1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 292 Ventriculus, the Stomach.]
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. (at cited word) The Stomach or Ventriculus is placed immediately under the Midriff.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 258/1 Ventriculus, or Stomach,..a great bag or reservoir, situated [etc.].
1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. iv. 109 The stomach or ventriculus is a hollow membranous viscus.
1894 Athenæum 21 Apr. 514/3 The alimentary canal is more of the type of other Gamasidæ than of the Uropodinæ, the ventriculus being small and its cæca long.
b. The gizzard in birds and insects.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > gizzard
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > internal organ > proventriculus
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 916 [The] Stomach..consists of an interior portion, the Proventriculus,..and a posterior, the Ventriculus or Gizzard, which is muscular.
2. = ventricle n. 1.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > ventricle or chamber
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ventriculus?1768
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 278/2 The heart..is hollow within, and divided by a septum which runs between the edges into two cavities, called ventriculi.
3. The body-cavity of a sponge.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > body-cavity
ventriculus1877
spongocoel1940
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 115 In the simplest Calcispongiæ..the wall of the ventriculus is thin.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 409 The anterior end of the ventriculus.
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