ventricul-, ventriculo- +

(Latin: [little] belly; hence, "a small cavity; especially of the heart or brain")


accelerated idioventricular rhythm
A rapid ventricular rhythm, approximately 60 to 110 beats per minute.

It usually results from premature beats or an escape rhythm generated by slowing of the sinus pacemaker or acceleration of a ventricular pacemaker.

atrioventricular
Relating to both the atria and the ventricles of the heart, especially to the ordinary, orthograde transmission of conduction or blood flow.
idioventricular
In cardiology, relating to or affecting only the ventricle and not the atria.
ulcus ventriculi perforans
A gastric ulcer which perforates into the peritoneal cavity.
ventricular
Referring to a ventricle (a small cavity).
ventricular fold
One of the false vocal cords, or folds, of mucous membrane parallel to or above the true vocal cords.
ventriculitis
Inflammation of a ventricle.
ventriculocisternostomy
The surgical creation of a communication between the third ventricle and the interpeduncular cistern, for drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (relating to or involving the brain and spinal cord) in hydrocephalus (enlargement of the skull because of abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricular system of the brain).
ventriculocordectomy
Surgery for the relief of laryngeal stenosis (surgical narrowing or constricting of the larynx, the voice box).
ventriculography
1. Radiography used to visualize the size and shape of the cerebral ventricles.
2. Visualization of ventricles of the heart by radiograph after injection of a contrast material.
ventriculometry
The measurement of the intraventricular cerebral pressure.
ventriculoscopy
1. Endoscopic examination of the cerebral ventricles.
2. Examination of the ventricles of the brain with an endoscope.
ventriculostomy
The surgical creation of an opening in a cerebral ventricle.
ventriculotomy
A surgical incision of a ventricle (a chamber of an organ; for example, the four connected cavities or hollow spaces, in the central portion of the brain and the lower two chambers of the heart are called ventricles).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-.


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