What is "ventricles"

Usage examples of "ventricles".

But hydraulic thinking centred not on the fatty and unpromising tissue of which the brain was composed but instead on its fluid-filled core, the ventricles, lovingly drawn by early anatomists, none more strikingly than Leonardo.

Lately he was increasingly frightened by his emotional detachment, an unwanted but apparently irreversible hardening of the heart that would soon leave him with auricles of marble and ventricles of common stone.

From the watery condition of the blood, there resulted various serous effusions into the pericardium, ventricles of the brain, and into the abdomen.

From the watery condition of the blood there resulted various serous effusions into the pericardium, into the ventricles of the brain, and into the abdominal cavity.

The impoverished condition of the blood, which led to serous effusions within the ventricles of the brain, and around the brain and spinal cord, and into the pericardial and abdominal cavities, was gradually induced by the action of several causes, but chiefly by the character of the food.

At this point Europe was invaded by barbarian motorcycle gangs such as the Angles, the Franks, the Jutes, the Teds, the Sextants, the Ventricles, and Martha and the Vandellas.

Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism.

Korsakoff s patients this region of the brain is very shrunken and the ventricles enlarged.

They arranged themselves easefully within the generous ventricles of light.