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Descriptor English: Heart Ventricles
Descriptor Spanish: Ventrículos Cardíacos
Descriptor ventrículos cardíacos
Entry term(s) ventrículo cardíaco
ventrículo del corazón
ventrículo derecho
ventrículo izquierdo
ventrículos del corazón
Scope note: Cámaras inferiores, derecha e izquierda, del corazón. El ventrículo derecho bombea SANGRE venosa hacia los PULMONES, en tanto que el ventrículo izquierdo bombea sangre oxigenada hacia la circulación arterial general.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ventrículos do Coração
Descriptor French: Ventricules cardiaques
Entry term(s): Cardiac Ventricle
Cardiac Ventricles
Heart Ventricle
Left Ventricle
Left Ventricles
Right Ventricle
Right Ventricles
Ventricle, Cardiac
Ventricle, Heart
Ventricle, Left
Ventricle, Right
Ventricles, Cardiac
Ventricles, Heart
Ventricles, Left
Ventricles, Right
Tree number(s): A07.541.560
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006352
Scope note: The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.
Annotation: ventricular hypertrophy = HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR or HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; false ventricular tendons: index PURKINJE FIBERS but see note there; PAPILLARY MUSCLES & CHORDAE TENDINEAE are also available
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: physiology:Ventricular Function
Public MeSH Note: 2004; see HEART VENTRICLE 1966-2003
History Note: 2004(1966)
Related: Radionuclide Ventriculography MeSH
Ventricular Pressure MeSH
DeCS ID: 6505
Unique ID: D006352
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/07/05
Heart Ventricles - Preferred
Concept UI M0009975
Scope note The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.
Preferred term Heart Ventricles
Entry term(s) Cardiac Ventricle
Cardiac Ventricles
Heart Ventricle
Ventricle, Cardiac
Ventricle, Heart
Ventricles, Cardiac
Ventricles, Heart
Right Ventricle - Narrower
Concept UI M0449363
Preferred term Right Ventricle
Entry term(s) Right Ventricles
Ventricle, Right
Ventricles, Right
Left Ventricle - Narrower
Concept UI M0449364
Preferred term Left Ventricle
Entry term(s) Left Ventricles
Ventricle, Left
Ventricles, Left



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